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...super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk on as "de Lawd." "Hold me up, Charlie, hold me up," admonished Actor Harrison as he left the theatre. "I'll be back in a few days. The world at this time needs this play...
...Fortnight ago Wiley Post set out from Los Angeles in the Winnie Mae on what was to be a 400-m.p.h. 7-hr. nonstop flight to New York in the substratosphere. An hour later an overheated engine forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...RFChairman Jesse Jones announced a final plan for his pet railroad project, partitioning of Minneapolis & St. Louis (mileage: 1,627) which has been in receivership for twelve years (TIME, Oct. 29). About 500 mi. of this decrepit carrier will be junked, the rest parceled out among eight adjacent systems. Though details were still secret, Illinois Central will apparently be the chief gainer, acquiring a direct entrance over its own rails into Minneapolis. Mr. Jones will provide the big carriers with a total of $7,200,000 to buy the individual pieces...
...Chicago Great Western is a 1,518-mi. "Granger" road sprawling over the rich farm territory directly west of Chicago. Small in comparison with Grangers like Burlington or North Western, it is strategically important as a connection between the Transcontinentals and Chicago. Its president is Patrick H. ("Pat") Joyce, who declared on taking office in 1930 that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than...
...rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another ship, another cargo. The scrap goes into Japanese skyscrapers...