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Long has it been supposed that the Pennsylvania Railroad has had working control of the Greyhound Lines, biggest U. S. bus system, serving almost every city in the country on a daily schedule. When news of a coördinated bus-rail system came out, this seemed confirmed (TIME, March 10). Last week the first bus on the cöordinated schedule left Manhattan. Travelers scanned timetables with such combinations...
...Greyhound. In corporate structure, Greyhound lines is a complicated affair, more complicated than the average railroad. Its central root stretches to Hibbing, Minn., where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later...
...present among Chicago houses is that volume on their Exchange is unique in its performance of running ahead of 1929. For the first quarter, sales came to 19,100,700 shares against 17,046,000 last year. New listings have played some part in this, Marshall Field and Greyhound Bus Lines, both recently added, being very active...
...year, there were 62 steam railroads using 1,253 busses over 16,793 miles of route, while 260 electric railroads operated 10,062 busses over 20,279 miles. Last week a deal of major importance in this railroad-bus relationship was concluded between the Pennsylvania R. R. and the Greyhound Corp., one of the biggest U. S. bus lines, said to be controlled by the Pennsylvania. The arrangements were for a coordinated rail-bus service between New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, passengers to travel in busses by day and pullmans at night. Especially strategic is the deal at this...
...Nationalist protest was lodged with the Occidental consuls, at Shanghai last week, against British-fostered greyhound racing in that city. So popular have the races & betting become that they are denounced as "leading to the impoverishment of the common people of Shanghai for the benefit of foreigners...