Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cope with this new situation. An additional obstacle to concerted, thoughtful action was the industry's diversity of interests, there being almost as many railroads in the country as newspapers. In the fourth year of Depression, last week Pennsylvania R. R. introduced an elastic freight service, and Southeastern and Western roads did what they admittedly should have done 15 years ago-slashed passenger rates...
...same time, Southeastern and Western roads dropped the 50% Pullman surcharge and reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
Summer 1933. The culture resident in Southeastern Connecticut traveled several times by automobile to Nikolai Sokoloff's farm in Weston, Conn., where a hillside was accepted as an amphitheatre and the 90 musicians as an orchestra...
Georgia has two racing halfbacks named Homer Key, who weighs only 145 Ib., and Cy Grant, who is high-scorer for the season in the Southeastern Conference. Last week both men slithered and sprinted through Florida, Grant making two touchdowns which boosted his average to better than one per game...
...Western roads. Pennsylvania. New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford alone carry 70% of all U. S. railroad passengers. A committee of Eastern rail officials, headed by Central's Frederick Ely Williamson, was formed to ponder fare-cutting, and Mr. Cole's Southeastern roads agreed to await a decision from Mr. Williamson before deciding what they as a group would do. Mr. William son's committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment. It is an open secret that Pennsy and Central are willing...