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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This autumn, with a real war emergency at hand, Johnson tried again. Through his War Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old Associated Gas & Electric system, which sticks into his New York organization at Rochester, Staten Island, elsewhere). Any chance that some arrangement could be made whereby Mr. Carlisle would become War II's No. 1 Dollar a Year man, and deliver the industry's cooperation in a big building...
...operating income. Typical of this policy was New York Central, whose gross jumped $5,900,000 (from $25,800,000 to $31,700,000) compared with September 1938, while its net operating income jumped $4,100,000 (from $2,200,000 to $6,300,000). On the other hand Pennsylvania, which in September was already hard at work repairing down-at-heel freight cars (such repairs are charged to maintenance), had a $3,000,000 increase in various costs which held its net operating income down. Result: its net rose $3,000,000, its gross...
...Japanese explained that the price rise could not be avoided. Fearing a domestic inflation, Japanese people were hoarding silk. Furthermore the 1938 cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be very low. Besides which the Japanese, to conserve foreign exchange, were buying garments of native silk, instead of imported cotton or rayon made from imported wood pulp...
...trim, single-funneled, 5,809-ton German freighter, deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...
...memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...