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...happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
...backed by William T. Morris of New York and Wilmot F. Wheeler of Bridgeport, took over the tire-chain business. Mr. Weed retained an interest in the company, collected patent royalties. By that time the War was on, business was good, and in 1916 Mr. Lashar purchased Parsons Non-Skid Co. Ltd., of London, became international leader in his special field. American Chain made all kinds of chains, including chains for anchors. With German U-boats creating an abnormal demand for new shipping, American Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime...
...year-old chairman of Britain's Royal Arms Inquiry Commission (TIME, March 4), Sir John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet...
...SeattIe's street of Radical orators, flop houses, bawdy houses, named long ago when it was frequented by rough loggers from the skid-roads of the timberlands...
Sparkless Sal, first motorized piece of apparatus of the Cambridge fire department, has been retired after 13 years of faithful duty, tominated a month age by a fairly substantial crash with a garbage wagon following a skid on the icy streets...