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Labor's good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, has a good Arkansas friend, Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope...
...sells for $745 with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price, but the importers last week hoped to do a brisk trade in "Nippy...
Franklin Roosevelt, equally active, sped from Washington to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor (see p. 27), made a triumphal 30-mi. tour of the city, swung back through Wilkes-Barre and other Pennsylvania towns, to Camden, N. J., Wilmington and Washington, only to start again, reinvade Brooklyn, have his hour upon the platform in Madison Square Garden, and finally go home up the Hudson...
...five other original pilots on the line. Last May a crash killed Harry Williams. Last week, for an undisclosed price, his widow, one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, sold the business to Eastern Air Lines, which flies between New York and New Orleans. Present Wedell-Williams airline is the 338-mi. run from New Orleans to Houston, Tex. In honor of its unlucky founders. Eastern will call this important extension the Wedell-Williams Division...
Three-Wheeling Through Africa is the record of a motorcycle trip by two University of Nebraska graduates from Lagos, Nigeria, 3,800 mi. to the Red Sea. Written in an exclamatory prose and complete with descriptions of hardships and breakdowns through equatorial Africa it is the one book of all recent volumes on Africa most likely to set a reader puzzling as to whether the outlandish habits of natives in the eyes of whites are half as inexplicable as the habits of whites in the eyes of natives...