Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Sunday School Times, world's largest weekly of its kind (circulation: 63,500). brought up the question of whether or not a Christian should bow at a Shinto shrine. Emphatically answering no, it saluted Dr. Charles Darby Fulton, affable, Japanese-speaking secretary of the Southern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who ordered schools in his jurisdiction in Korea closed-in defiance of the Japanese Government-wherever there were nearby shrines. Korean Presbyterian churches, which are self-governing, may well follow Secretary Fulton's example if the Government tries to force their leaders to visit shrines...
...expanding they could do if they got the right kind of money. We have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing but for anything that will put men to work." Back cracked the industry's spokesman, President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern: "Greatest immediate requirement of the utility industry is a large inflow of common capital indispensable for much-needed additional construction. Loans by the government will not solve the problem. The solution is dependent on a restoration of confidence on the part of potential utility investors. This confidence can only be restored...
Commonwealth & Southern...
Transportation in Southern California has long been a monopoly of the Southern Pacific Co. and its associate, Pacific Greyhound Lines. Last week that monopoly was cracked wide open. In a 100-page decision on a case which had required 30 months of litigation, 17,205 pages of testimony transcript, California's Railroad Commission gave Santa Fe Transportation Co. authority to inaugurate passenger service between San Diego and San Francisco, with a basic fare rate of 1½?-per-mile and tickets interchangeable between streamlined trains and air-cooled busses. Wherever Santa Fe train and bus lines meet, the passenger...
...motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...