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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...conservative Association of American Railroads knows that thousands of U. S. citizens from inland towns and villages will visit the San Francisco and New York World's Fairs this spring and summer, is fully aware of the passenger competition it will get from the cheaper bus lines, the convenient private automobiles, the more expensive airlines...
This week A. A. R. stepped up to get some of the business for the railroads. It announced the roads would take a passenger from any town in the U. S.-even Miami, or Brownsville, or Kennebunk Port-transport him to San Francisco, carry him on to New York, then back to his home, all for $90 in coaches, or $135 first class, with Pullman charges added. The railroads are not in favor of freight "postalization," but this was the plainest kind of passenger postalization...
Dapper Joe Smoot, who had built Hialeah in 1925 and started the building of California's Santa Anita six years ago, had a harder time than he expected getting his latest racetrack in operation. He had to appeal to the State Supreme Court before he could get a permit from the Florida Racing Commission, which felt it was unsound for two tracks to operate at the same time in Greater Miami. After the permit was finally granted, Promoter Smoot decided to pull out. Contractor Horning, by this time infected with Promoter Smoot's enthusiasm, took over the track...
Bear Willkie lost his latest chance to get free last fortnight when the Supreme Court, without passing on TVA's constitutionality, rejected the attack of Commonwealth & Southern and other utility companies on TVA's competing with their established power lines (TIME, Feb. 6). This left the privately owned utilities the choice of selling out or competing eternally with the Government-the latter choice an obvious economic impossibility...