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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bookish Rollins | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from the collapse of the Florida boom and the increase in motor traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Haven's Pelley | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Railroads. Though passenger traffic on Class I railroads (184 main trunk lines) was the smallest in the last 20 years, freight traffic increased ½ to 1% and by cutting operating expenses most roads showed larger earnings per share in spite of many decreases in gross income. These roads reported net operating income of approximately $1,200,000,000, a return of 4.71% on their property investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Transport Planes | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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