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...issue was the loss by Chicago's ancient Parmelee Transportation Co. of its 102-year-old franchise to haul passengers and baggage between the city's eight painfully scattered railroad stations. Last spring the railroads, considering Parmelee inefficient and overpriced, threw open bidding on a new five-year contract. Successful low bidder was Railroad Transfer Service, Inc., headed by tempestuous John Keeshin, trucking magnate and longtime, if unlikely, friend of quiet Hugh Cross...
...Once, during a narcotics haul from a drugstore, she wore toreador pants; another time, during the simmering heat of Lnst July, she wore shorts and a halter.) Always it was Maggie who gave the orders: "Put up your hands-I'll kill ya." Then, she would give instructions to her jittery confederates in a calm, soft voice: "Take him to the back room and make him lie down . . . You get the money." Police marked Maggie as one of the coolest dames on the books...
World University Service is another student-oriented group that made a record haul immediately after the war, and then began to disappear from student checkbooks. Devoted to improving educational standards throughout the world, WUS by special arrangement conducted its own drives in 1947 and 1948, when students had great interest in raising money for demolished universities in Europe. Personal solicitations netted WUS $23,000 in one year. By contrast, last year's Combined Charities Drive gave the group only...
High on the Hog. In Atlanta, Edward Scott Holler, 47, released from a two-year term at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, was back in jail five days later because he swiped ten pigs from the prison's farm hired seven boys, four trucks and a Cadillac to haul them away, paid his helpers with phony checks...
AERIAL BUS will be built by ex-T.W.A. President Jack Frye in hopes of finding the long-sought-for replacement to the Douglas DC-3. Frye's projected high-wing, four-engine F-l will probably be built by a European company, sell for $350,000, haul five tons of cargo or 50 passengers at an aerial snail's pace (150 m.p.h.) but be able to use a very short runway...