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...period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games.) "To further the development of two main home bases on each coast." (That meant that, on the Atlantic, Norfolk and Narragansett Bay and, on the Pacific, Mare Island at San Francisco and Bremerton near Seattle would probably be developed as the major navy yards at the expense of other shore stations.) What made Secretary Swanson's Policy Sheet mean more than it said was the man himself. As the longtime...
...straight banking is not one of its jobs. It carries accounts for merchants but no checking accounts. Its primary business has been securities, railroad securities in particular. Kuhn, Loeb railroads include the North Western, the Delaware & Hudson, Illinois Central, Norfolk & Western, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, Paris-Lyon-Mediteranée. Kuhn, Loeb's railroad reorganizations include such famed roads as the B. & O., St. Paul...
...small arms and machine-guns, prepared for naval battle with high-jackers or covetous rivals. Just what happened at the wreck scene the Coast Guard did not report, but presently a Captain John Hall of the Theresa & Dan and Jnord, also trying to salvage the Merida, ran in to Norfolk, roaring that Captain Bowdoin had cut his anchor chain...
...policy, is a case that has been before the Federal Power Commission for several years, a case apparently destined to go through the Federal courts to the highest. Its name is the New River Case, and last week there was reached in it, in the U. S. court at Norfolk, Va., what bushy-haired Chairman George Otis Smith hailed for his F. P. C. as "A major victory...
...British Empire is O. K. with me," said President Patterson, and that night the Norfolk's tars had their...