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...Class I roads,* about one-third (including 20 in bankruptcy) are unable to meet their fixed charges on bonds and preferred stock. Another third is little better off. Only eight Class I roads have bonds outstanding which are gilt-edged enough to be marked with Moody's Aaa (Pennsylvania, Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohio, Union Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Virginian, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac...
Into the highceilinged, ornamental, gilt-walled hall of the Hungarian Parliament's Lower Chamber walked surefootedly one day last week a young, handsome aristocratic statesman exuding confidence. He was Count Stephan Csáky, Hungary's Foreign Minister; before him were 262 uniformed deputies, waiting expectantly to hear a scheduled speech on foreign relations...
...hands, cried: "A native Flagstad!" Next day, at a private picnic given by Koussevitzky to the members of the orchestra and a few hand-picked critics and musicians, Soprano Maynor, perfectly poised, warbled faultless coloratura, crooned deep Lieder, went to town on a Wagnerian Ho-yo-to-ho. The gilt-edged professional audience marveled at her versatility and easy form, found her rich voice one of the finest in a generation...
...Share's small Washington Water Power Co. (450 miles of lines) has been threatened with competition from giant U. S. power plants at both Grand Coulee and Bonneville. Last month it sold $22,000,000 of 3½% 25-year bonds for refunding and new construction at the gilt-edged price of 105. Unworried investors gobbled up the issue...
...limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...