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Sirs: Steuart H. Britt's letter in TIME of Dec. 31 is not adequately answered by your comment. Students of history should be informed that in reality Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3, 1849, and promptly thereafter Taylor became President. The Constitution provides, concerning the Presidents: "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath. . . ." President Taylor took this oath at noon on March 5 because he had no occasion to enter on the execution...
...Loree had nominally dropped out of the eastern contest. He still controlled his Delaware & Hudson. But he had sold his (i. e., D. & H.'s) control of the Wabash and his near control of the Lehigh Valley to the Pennsylvania. He had forfeited his option...
...York, New Haven & Hartford, and would reach eastern Canada over the Rutland. The Pennsylvania might also branch up to Canada, and bridge over to New England, by way of Mr. Loree's friendly, temporarily isolated Delaware & Hudson,* and go into New England over the N. Y., N. H. & H. New York Central, C. & O. and B. & 0. would han le Michigan's automobiles, furniture and lumber; the B. & O., C. & 0. and the Pennsylvania the South's lumber and fruits northward bound and South America's raw materials U. S. bound. All four roads would touch Chicago, St. Louis...
Soft Drinks. Three beverage-bottling companies last week agreed to unite: Carl H. Schultz Corp. (70-year-old table & mineral water company), Schoneberger & Noble Inc. (Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic), Brownie Corp. (new "Brownie" chocolate drink). President E. C. McCullough of the holding company, American Beverage Corp., announced that these three are only the beginning of a nationwide soft-drink chain...
Noah MacDowell & Co.: Noah MacDowell Jr.; Charles H. Sabin Jr., son of Chairman Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. (see p. 50) ; Allan A. Ryan Jr., son of Stutz Cornerer Allan A. Ryan, grandson of the late Thomas For tune Ryan; forming a new house...