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Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...
...lithe and slender it does not cost any more to join than the Red Cross does, and the need is nearly as great. For the heavyweights, who can't squeeze in, Otto has arranged for prompt and efficient mall delivery...
...aviator, braced himself behind the wheel of a 24-cylinder, 1,000-h.p., 4-ton automobile of British make (Sunbeam); zipped along the tide-smoothed sand at Daytona Beach, Fla.; set a new record for the straightaway mile, 203.792 mi. per hour. Task completed, Major Segrave dismounted to receive prompt recognition from onlooker John D. Rockefeller Sr., in the shape of four shiny new dimes...
...Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means prompt response to the opportunity for profit. The fault, we suspect, is largely one of absentee ownership...
...famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...