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...cumulative results of six bad railroad years, the administrator would find that during 1935 there were 16 rail-road receiverships or trusteeships.operating 29,018 miles of track. Biggest 1935 disaster was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific with 11,123 miles of track and a $449,000,000 funded debt. The 16 casualties of 1935 brought the total to 89 companies with 71,658 miles of line- almost 30% of total U. S. mileage...
...reason was that in case of a wreck the sleeper's head would come in contact with the steel partition which would naturally increase chances of an immediate death, the reason for this being that a number of States have laws which limit the liability of the rail-road in case of death but do not limit the liability in case of injury...
...rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped with bell and safety signals, at exactly the same second that a B. & O. locomotive started to take the same crossing at top speed...
...order to promote trade and commerce in the public interest, further improve railroad service, and maintain the integrity and credit of the industry, rail-road companies of the U. S. do hereby establish an authoritative national organization which shall be adequately qualified and empowered in every lawful way to accomplish these ends where concert of policy and action are required...
...Cuba's aid last week President Roosevelt sent the best man he could find. his own Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., the R. F. C.'s soft-spoken little rail-road credit manager, an expert on Caribbean law and economics. Last week in Washington U. S. sugar refiners broke out at a hearing of the commission on U. S. sugar marketing and accused vibrant Mr. Berle, acting as the Farm Adjustment Administration's counsel, of being "prejudiced in favor of refining interests in Cuba." Two days later President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Berle financial adviser...