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...average private car. without special equipment, costs from $100,000 upwards. Its operation about the country by a non-railroad-owner requires payment of 25 full fares and as many Pullman surcharges. If the car is attached to a limited train. 25 extra-fares are added...
...wish, however, to have any misunderstanding of our actions and therefore we shall not lay these keels until there has been opportunity for a full consideration of their effect upon the final agreement for parity, although our hopes of relief from construction lie more largely in the latter years of the program...
...ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York Harbor. At Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was Major-General Andrew Hero Jr., Chief of Coast Artillery, defending New York, keeping the harbor open. For three days the battle between the Admiral and General veered...
...formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...
President and Bishop took care that the Shannon did not gurgle in too fast, did not erode and spoil the sides of the $20,000,000 ditch. All in good time it will have trickled full, probably by next October. Then President Cosgrave will open other sluices at the farther end of the ditch where a new $15,000,000 hydro-electric power plant is now almost complete. As ditch water gushes through turbines, enough electric power will be made to light every home and hut in the Irish Free State...