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...stout football squad handed the University of Wyoming a whacking 19-0 defeat in Laramie last week, but for the 450 Cheyenne businessmen who frolicked on a special Union Pacific train which carried them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
Only ray in this atmosphere of almost universal gloom was the leadership of the peace delegations. Speaking for A. F. of L. at the big oval table on the third floor of the Willard was George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, stocky, 42-year-old head of A. F. of L. railroad department and president of the potent Railway Labor Executives association...
President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads summarized the current gloom of railroaders by further plain speaking: "The margin between income and operating expenses has been so thin that the railroads face a real crisis. Because there is no other way to meet this crisis than to make a general increase in rates and fares, the railroads will ask the commission to expedite consideration of the matter. Facing the railroads today is an increase in operating costs totaling $663,303,000 annually since early in 1933. Of that amount, more than one-half results from new taxes...
...dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road in 1937 because of unprecedented Labor troubles, U. S. automobile men last week were noticeably free from the gloom of Wall Street...
...fault of the New Deal. Last month Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay took the unprecedented step of warning the Securities & Exchange Commission that the thinness of trading, resulting directly from, market regulation, would in time produce "abnormal market conditions" (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week President Gay's gloom seemed justified indeed...