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...second I. C. C. consolidation plan (TIME, Aug. 1) as usual left D. & H. in a bad spot, its disposition undetermined. Mr. Loree, with masses of cash on hand, bided his time to begin a frontal attack for his place in the sun. At the 1929 high, 500,000 New York Central shares would have cost D. & H. $125,000,000. At Depression figures Mr. Loree picked them up through J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10.000,000. With the leverage that a 20% interest gives him, he would not have to wait long to fit little D. & H. into...
...lead a movement against the $400,000,000 Allowance to veterans for miscellaneous illnesses which have no connection with the War. A general reorganization of Government departments is possible but improbable. As in the past, savings will take the form of snippings here, snippings there, not a bold frontal attack on Governmental spending. Therefore to balance the budget...
General Ma, despite his frontal resistance and spirited efforts to turn the Japanese right flank, was forced slowly back upon Tsitsihar. Miles behind the Japanese lines during the week and safe from Chinese capture was the famed Nonni River Bridge, almost captured by General Ma in his first assaults. Under grim Japanese guard and directed by Japanese engineers, docile Chinese coolies completed repairs to the dynamited bridge, made possible the further advance of chuffing Japanese armored trains...
...Doumers did not actually move in until the Elysée had been furiously swept, scrubbed, dusted for two days. After this preliminary assault. General Housekeeper Mine Doumer will lead a frontal attack on the old palace by painters, paperers. floor-waxers, basement-scrubbers, waterspout fixers...
Pared Brain. Dr. Walter Edward Dandy (Johns Hopkins) announced that he had found that two-thirds of a man's brain could be pared away without damaging intellectual powers. He reported cases where he had removed both frontal lobes in removing a tumor. Said he: '"To retain unimpaired mental powers a human needs only his midbrain and his left hemisphere...