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...Virginia C. Jenckes of Terre Haute, Ind. had ten Counties, the new Sixth District, to cover. This she did in an automobile driven by her daughter Virginia, 19. They drove 15.000 mi. Mrs. Jenckes, a widow, is the great-granddaughter of the first judge of the Northwest Territory, belongs to one of Terre Haute's oldest families. She owns and runs a 1,160-acre farm...
...York there are 730 mi. of subways, 137 mi. of elevated. They transport nearly 2,000,000,000 people annually at 50 a ride and are continually in financial, legal or political wrangles which practically nobody comprehends. But one thing is clear: the El, with fresh air and plenty of scats but less convenient, loses money...
...even Balthasar Henry Meyer, who has sat with the I. C. C. longer than any other member, could recall a ruling similar to one the I. C. C. made last week. The ruling affected not a mighty railroad system but the 23-mi. Fredericksburg & Northern in Texas, the 65-lb. rails of which have been worn and bent by passing trains since 1889. Yet it was important as a precedent...
...famed old Aeronaut-Poet Augustus Post, an arresting figure of lordly carriage, with grey trowel beard, curling mustaches and somewhat rambling speech. He was Mr. Hawley's co-pilot on the 1910 flight in which they made an unofficial distance record which has never been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked...
...Added to the previous 6,000-ton Illinois Central order this gives $400,000 new business to the steel industry. Big railroad buying will probably be deferred until late December. The 10,000 tons ordered at the new price last week is only rail enough to replace about 50 mi. of track...