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...Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton, son of a California oilman, chalked...
...this came out next morning when the cabin which the man in the beret had occupied was found empty, in violent disorder, its washstand and the catwalk outside its open, window bloodstained. On the floor were shattered glasses, a wrist watch, its metal band wrenched and broken, and a nickel. No one could place his red-faced friend, but purser's records identified the missing man as Charles F. Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington...
...five years 1926 through 1930 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway owned through its subsidiary, Virginia Transportation Corp., about 1,000,000 shares of stock worth $50,000,000, carrying, together with stock of affiliates, working control of the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads. These holdings were not reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. & O.'s Comptroller E. M. Thomas declared that this was "solely through a clerical error." When Senator Truman marveled at this explanation, Comptroller Thomas continued hotly...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...
...nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took the deepest dive in nearly three years. At week's end such speculative stalwarts as U. S. Steel, Johns-Manville, Air Reduction, Anaconda Copper, International Nickel, International Harvester, were selling from 10 to 28 points below their 1937 highs...