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Though less than 8% of the total U.S. mileage was subsidized by land grants, the railroads cleared an estimated $434 million from the sale of land. Four of them- Southern Pacific; Northern Pacific; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Union Pacific -still hold most of the remaining 16 million acres, worth $60 million. But the railroads have long since regretted their old bargain. The Government is now far & away the nation's biggest shipper...
...Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told Author Forbes about the present draft of Lady Chatterley which had remained in Lawrence's bound notebooks for 18 years...
High Plateau. The rails, whose spectacular traffic rise has helped them outfoot rising costs, were leveling-off. On their up-&-down profit line, the downs to date were slightly more numerous than the ups. Prime example on the down side: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. With a whacking $65,000,000 rise in its tax bill, profits dropped...
Outside the News office in the long night, Paul would listen to the lonely wail of the locomotives that brought the world to Ada-the engines of Santa Fe; the Frisco ; the Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka R.R. that took Ada to the State capital 85 miles away. Inside the News office Paul boiled down facts & figures about the teeming life of Oklahoma's oil wells, zinc and lead mines, cotton and alfalfa fields, stockyards and cement mills into daily news for Ada's readers...
...Proudly We Hail (Paramount) enlists three of Paramount's brightest fe-.male stars (Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake) in a heartfelt, but highly fictional, tribute to the Army nurses of Bataan. The three leading ladies are so comely even in coveralls that, despite all the realistic shooting, they spend most of their time fighting a woman...