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...flying laboratory (like the U. S. Los Angeles), but it will not be reconstructed or lengthened for additional lifting power as was its sister R-101. The mooring masts at Montreal, Karachi (India) and Ismailia (Egypt), erected as part of Britain's ambitious scheme to link the far-flung parts of the Empire by air, will be kept in repair. Annual cost of the new retrenched program is estimated...
...observer of last week's developments who was quite as intensely interested as the Standard Fruit men, was Boston's Victor Macomber Cutter, president of far-flung United Fruit Co. With $1 26.000,000 invested in Central American tropics, with 1.500 mi. of railroad, with 115 "Great White Fleet" ships plying the seas, with nearly 3,000,000 acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres...
...Eaton's pack, an ace is United Light & Power, far-flung utility holding company. What actually seems to have transpired was that the Eaton-Otis holdings in this and many another company* sold last week to Continental Shares, Inc., a holding company which Mr. Eaton controls. To accomplish this, Continental Shares Inc., had borrowed a large sum of money, some in Cleveland, more in New York. Since control of Continental Shares is firmly lodged with the Otis-Eaton interests, the deal seemed to have little actual significance except that Mr. Eaton's financial resources are ample...
...far-flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty...
...largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...