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...introduce streamliners to the South with the Rebels (New Orleans to Jackson, Tenn.), he went competitors one better by stocking his streamliners with smart, good-looking college girls - the U. S.'s first train hostesses. Scheduled to pay for themselves in seven and a half years, the sleek, Diesel-powered stream liners paid out in less than half that time. In 1936 President Tigrett formed Gulf Transport Co. to handle freight over a coordinated rail-highway system. To it he added a passenger service with tickets interchangeable between busses and trains. Says he: "We believe in hauling...
That all is not what it seems is naturally well known to Lanny's father, Robbie Budd. A Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships...
...February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in Ingalls' cap was a fat $16,000,000 contract for four sleek, 489-foot, 9,2Oo-ton passenger ships originally destined for U. S. Lines' New York-London trade. Ingalls is not alone in its belief that the riveted ship is on the way out. Near Newport News, Va., home of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., No. 2 U. S. shipbuilder...
...foldboat is an Americanization of the German "flatboot" or collapsible rubber kayak, of which there are hundreds of thousands in Europe. Now, however, the foldboat seems to be one of the few German importations genuinely welcome in this country. Mr. Kissner, a pioneer in the manufacture of these sleek "downhill yachts," has gathered together a valuable storehouse of information on the technical and geographical aspects of this speedier form of canoeing. It is altogether necessary for already-enthusiastic fold-boaters, and is likely to make many new converts to the sport...
When Phil Charig of this musical set asked him to drive to California one day, Grant went along for the ride, stayed to work five years for Paramount. As a dark, sleek, bedimpled leading man, Cinemactor Grant made $500 a week, but he did not make much headway in pictures. Says he: "They had a lot of leading men over there with dark hair and a set of teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three...