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...year-old, stocky, square-jawed Lowell Yerex, New Zealand flier in World War I. After the war, Yerex spent ten years barnstorming and selling automobiles in the U. S., then drifted south to Honduras with $25 and an old Stinson monoplane, went into business. His business: to haul anything anyplace in Central America a plane could land. He also managed to keep on the right side of the volatile Central American Governments, even did air fighting for Honduras against revolutionists. One day while he was strafing native troops, a rifle bullet smacked his head, put out an eye. A crack...
...fertile plains toward the east coast grew a lot of Britain's food. And into the east coast ports was brought a large bulk of the enormous fish haul with which Britain pieced out her imported food supply. But it was of the industrial Midlands that Adolf Hitler thought when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain...
...Long Island Railroad, owned by the Pennsylvania, carries more passengers per year than any railroad in the U. S. But more than half of them are commuters, and the Long Island, competing with 5? subways, must haul them cheaply. To the commuters' chronic irritation, it does. Favorite Long Island commuter's sport is thinking up ways to pique, gyp and otherwise get back at the Long Island Railroad...
This setup will give modest, canny, homespun Ike Tigrett a chance to step up the $427,388 net profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other...
...Britain will maintain her oil supply no U. S. oilmen knew for sure last week. With Norway's tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line...