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...probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association, adding motor competition to rate reductions, rising costs, on the list of urgent...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...
...Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...
Disappointed but firm, King Mihai I advanced. "I'll show you how!" he volunteered. Grasping firmly the chubby wrists of Peter he sought to haul him close. Unimpressed, the future King of Jugoslavia practiced simple noncooperation until the King of Rumania gave up in disgust...
...what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary Garden; and, lastly, for all good dancing men to come to the aid of the party...