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...Mellon and his brother Richard, who together own working control of Pittsburgh Coal Co. As part of an extensive rehabilitation program, whose object was to restore dividends after an eight-year lapse, Pittsburgh Coal was building this spur to connect with water transportation on the Ohio River. This would shave the cost of hauling coal to Youngstown and Cleveland, perhaps enough to enable Pittsburgh to recapture markets lost to the low-cost producers of the Southern fields. Which meant, of course, that Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson would haul a much smaller chunk of Pittsburgh's 10,000,000-ton annual...
...workman's clothes looking a bit like Charles Augustus Lindbergh without a shave walked out of Moscow's Kremlin one day last month, across vasty Red Square and stopped at a line of common folk waiting outside a State store. He asked the man at the end of the line, "What are you waiting to buy, Comrade...
...employed have been "usually butchers by trade." They are not yet wearing the ceremonial full dress prescribed by Captain Goring who delights to set fashions and even designed his own uniform as German Air Minister. Thus far the butchers have scorned to wear masks. Assistants bind the condemned man, shave his neck and hold him down squarely against the block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying the meat from their...
...replied that 1 had not; but believed it was true. Then he jumped out of bed and ran to his private phone and called the Secretary of Government, Rojelio Zayas Byzan; and said "Rojelio, come to the Palace at once!-No, do not wait to shave or put on a collar or tie! Come immediately!" In less than 15 minutes Byzan entered. (He was one of the seven of us who were never held up by the Guard. Vasco Bello was another; but Carlos Miguel de Cespedes and Viriato Guttierez and others, were not of this favored few.) When Byzan...
...tickets. The very few people who might pay the full price at this late date after foregoing the possession of a ticket for a half year, do not warrant the maintenance of these prices to the fact that many others prices in face of the fact that many others shave been awaiting a reduction of the price in order to get a half year of Athletics-for-the Athletics-for all for them selves. M. M. Levine...