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...Profit. Only nice thing about the whole situation is that the trolley and busmen are making money-and making it fast. Despite higher taxes and wages, Philadelphia Transportation earned $1,133,000 in the year ended June 30 v. $713,000 last year; New York City Omnibus cleared $738,000 in the first six months against $630,000 a year ago. And the Midwest's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. is making money so fast (six months' profit: $373,000 v. $126,000) that its preferred stock last week soared 24 points to 73, more than three times...
...most of the native plays had, and about all that were left of foreign plays, once they were adapted. "Hamlet was played for the murder, the ghost, the burial; Macbeth for the witches, the sleepwalking scene, the knocking at the gate." Some plays "were hardly plays at all but omnibus inclusions of the latest news, the latest partisan arguments." The drama was half operatic, exceedingly oratorical, and stagy oratory was perhaps the greatest and most popular of the arts...
Thrills at Paragon Park and sunburns at the beach await those going to Nantasket with the Outing Club all day Saturday. On Sunday all members of the University are invited to see the Puritan Hub city from a horse drawn omnibus. Inquiries about these trips should be made at the Summer School Office, Wadsworth...
Granting, then, the desirability of knowing these authors, it is still, plain that the September Authors examination should not be given when a majority of the men tested will have spent a busy summer here in the College. Whether the field should be covered in tutorial or in some omnibus Authors course is an entirely separate consideration--the fact remains that the September examination should be recognized for the rest of the war like the leisurely four-year program, as a thing of the past...
...sales letter to a prospect in Petersburg, Va., in which a wainwright offered a two-horse omnibus, with seats for 14 and an advertisement printed on the outside, for $550, with brakes $20 extra...