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...times there are even parents of a few internes who are so down-&-out that they're on relief. Why, we had a meeting of the council lately at which a member told us he hadn't carfare to get to the session and had walked 100 blocks [5 mi.] to attend. . . ." Another: "I personally know about 50 internes who have given up smoking because they don't have the price of tobacco. I know one chap whose girl bought him a new suit?his first in five years?and maybe he didn't have to pocket his pride...
...block will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing all but one of the Van Sweringen railroads, Wheeling & Lake Erie, whose stock is pledged with RFC. The man who owns that block of Alleghany stock can hire & fire the executives of Chesapeake & Ohio (3,100 mi.), Pere Marquette (2,200 mi.), Erie (2,700 mi.). Nickel Plate (1,690 mi.) and have a voice in the reorganization of Missouri Pacific (12,000 mi.) and Chicago & Eastern Illinois (900 mi.). Also for sale is stock control of Van Sweringen Corp., representing the Van Sweringens' principal real estate...
...jointly-owned corporation set up to buy M. & St. L. for $7,200,000?to be furnished by Mr. Jones. After abandoning one-third of M. & St. L.'s 1,500 miles of line. Associated Railways proposed to parcel out the rest for the partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include Illinois Central and Soo Line...
...racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw...
...mi. spin around the triangular course got going, it seemed their choice was wise. Out into the lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow...