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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now two U. S. Coast Guard cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift, so no harm is done if they bump a berg. Since the Ice Patrol was started, not a single ship has repeated the Titanic's smash...
When the Y. M. C. A. was a pious dream in the mind of a British draper's clerk, George Williams, it came near being a less easily pronounceable set of initials-the Y. M. R. A. (Young Men's Religious Association). Williams, a plugger who became a partner in the firm, married his partner's daughter and eventually was knighted by Queen Victoria, finally settled on the name "Christian" instead of "Religious," stipulated that only evangelical Christians could join his association...
...December 1926 there were 64,949 locomotives in the U. S. Today there are less than 44,000 and some 42,000 of them were bought before 1929, 30,000 before 1920. Meanwhile, insolvent roads "economize" by spending four and five times the cost of a new locomotive in piecemeal repairs to hopelessly obsolescent engines, although new freight engines would work 75-125,000 miles a year instead of 30-40,000 miles as the old ones do, would bring operating savings great enough to pay for themselves in a few years. Particularly true is this of Diesel switchers (which...
...black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression I and II. Meanwhile, Western and Southern roads, which chopped deep into their passenger fares, reaped a reward in increased passenger revenues, less idleness for rolling stock and men. Last week, the Eastern roads finally enrolled in the low-price school...
...editorial is also unfair to the Student Council committee, as it misrepresents their report which was moderate in tone, the principal points being that there should be greater emphasis placed on the teaching of art history as one of the humanities and less overconcentrating in the field. The Crimson has turned what was intended as constructive criticism into an hysterical and destructive attack...