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...CRIMSON pointed out earlier in the year, the traditional schedule which terminates the winter recess on January second, filling Pullman cars with undergraduates still in the throes of post New Years Eve nausea, has not been warranted by circumstances involved in the policy of having a reading period. When the second falls in the latter part of a week, and no one has been able to prevent it from so doing with annoying frequency, students are deprived of an entire weekend to attend often only, one or two classes. It is an extraordinary class that can single handed compensate...
...Manhattan) made known that two granddaughters of Abraham Lincoln-Mary Lincoln Isham and Jesse Lincoln Randolph-were each worth over $1,000,000. The fortunes had grown from securities (mainly National Biscuit Co. and Commonwealth Edison Co.) given them by their father. Robert Todd Lincoln, onetime president of Pullman...
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T.A.T.'s fare-cut was one more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...operators boost air travel at this season, when traffic is desperately light and expensive planes must keep schedules? Universal Aviation Corp. last week sought to kill the trouble by offering $250 mileage books from which Universal's air conductors will tear fares exactly equal to railroad fare plus Pullman charges between any two points served. Thus: Kansas City to Chicago regular air rate is $45.75; the railroad-pullman rate, and hence the Universal mileage scrip rate, $21.03. Anyone can buy and use the books -doctor, lawyer, Indian chief...