Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Dawes Committee, which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan, at Paris (TIME, Feb. 18), appointed a subcommittee of two, last week, presently enlarged it to five, and then let the days slip past, while Chairman of the Subcommittee and Chief of the British Delegation Sir Josiah Stamp struggled vainly to whip into shape an agenda or program outlining how the main committee should go about its business...
Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
Said he: "This new plan would enable the bright pupil to save two years in his preparatory training. Going directly from the two-year junior college into the professional colleges he would have a two-year start on the average professional man of today...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. suggested a merger that would more than double its mileage and valuation. The Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. offered a plan that would link the somewhat scattered Van Sweringen holdings into a unified and expanded trunk system...
...York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...