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...milestone last week was the I. C. C.'s approval, with modifications of the Big Four's own program. In its 1929 plan the I. C. C. had ordered a fifth East ern system to be composed of the Wabash, the Seaboard Air Line and a rag-tag-bobtail lot of small lines. Because no body advocated such a fifth trunk line, because both Wabash and Seaboard are in receivership, the I. C. C. dropped the idea and consented to a four-way division. The Seaboard was left to the South, the other lines were parcelled out among...
System v. System, The I. C. C.'s underlying idea was to establish rail competition not between individual lines but between systems. Thus out of New York N. Y. C. and Lackawanna, in the same system, would compete against Erie and Lehigh Valley in another system. Four-way system competition would be preserved at such important centres as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Only the B. & O. would fail to get into Norfolk. No important city which now has competition between two railroads would get less under the merger plan...
...fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry him," despite Miss Gish's grotesque make-up and quaintly haphazard clothes, Young Love is adequate entertainment...
...members of the four-way syndicate are: Standard Oil of N. J. (Mr. Teagle's firm), Standard Oil of N. Y., Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., Gulf Refining Co., and Atlantic Refining Co. The syndicate at first will spend $5,000,000 prospecting for oil; at present contemplates no production...