Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
...divorces were granted, last fortnight, in Minot. One automobile containing four persons immediately set out for Melita, Canada, where two marriages were performed. Having re-arranged themselves, the Knights and the Rikansruds tabulated and shared expenses...
...Four Powers. Perhaps the general outline of the eastern railroad situation is most clearly seen through an analogy between the pre-war Balance of Power in Europe and the present Balance of Power between the rail systems east of the Mississippi...
...Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when a rival seeks to acquire some little road which to the outsider might appear to carry merchandise of driblet volume between terminals...
...Holmes, President of Texas Corp., to head a committee of 80 oil-executives was last week announced by the American Petroleum Institute. The Holmes committee is charged with the difficult and vital function of determining some method of restricting oil production. The main committee is divided into four regional committees...