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...mighty creatures of the industrial age, railroad locomotives, Iron Horses. The gestation period of an Iron Horse is about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from a Brazilian cement company. Alco got the order-and filled it at its Montreal plant...
...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
...Lima the Peruvian Government of often-wounded President Luis Sanchez Cerro did not exactly help matters by issuing an enormous map. This showed that their political opponents, the ousted regime of former Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia, ceded to other countries 278,887 square miles of Peruvian territory by perfectly legal treaties...
Even Rio had to admit last week that the resistance of the Sao Paulo rebels was greater than previously announced. General Waldemiro Lima of the Federal forces maneuvered importantly in this fifth week of the revolution without producing any concrete results. President Vargas issued a decree last week calling for three new infantry battalions and 800 more cavalry troopers. It was admitted that the Federal troops have had no great success. A grand mass offensive with airplanes, tanks, artillery and infantry was promised for next week...
...Germans stabbing each other Unter den Linden (TIME, July 11) seemed more newsworthy to most U. S. citizens than 400 armed rebels who over-powered the garrison of Trujillo, most important city of northern Peru, last week, murdered the Mayor, looted banks & mansions, committed wholesale arson. Zooming up from Lima, Peru's capital, seven bombing planes first dropped demands that the rebels surrender, then bombed them until they fled...