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Pastor Hall began his telephone ministry when someone dialed him by mistake. It has been spread by: 1) word-of-mouth recommendation; 2) practical jokers who leave messages for their friends to call his number. Even the latter sometimes get so interested that when the operator asks for another nickel, they put it in. For those others who get mad and tell him to go to the devil, Pastor Hall has a ready reply: "I can't go with you, I'm going the other...
...board room where Financier Young got three of his friends elected to important railroad jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...
...Future. As boss of the C. & O.-Nickel Plate-Pere Marquette-Wheeling combination, Bob Young has plenty of plans for the future. First on the list is his No. 1 belief: drastic debt reduction as the best way to keep a railroad on the tracks during the next depression. A man who practices what he preaches, Bob Young has slashed Nickel Plate's debt $25,200,000 in the past two years, hopes to cut it another $10,000,000 next year. Meanwhile he has put most of C. & O.'s debt on a sinking-fund basis, hiked...
...months ago Cooke was sent to Brazil with an economic staff to determine what the U.S. can do to speed up Brazilian industrial output for the war. He saw magnificent resources-largest high-grade iron deposits in the world, rich bauxite fields, big nickel deposits, unlimited water power. Last week Cooke was ready to return to the U.S. With Joao Alberto he issued a prospectus of the report he will submit to the U.S. Government...
...maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting up a nickel of their own, and despite alleged incompetence, inefficiency and delay...