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...Francisco to Manhattan, devote his time to traffic, in which he is rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific has lost much of its east & west traffic to Missouri Pacific where the lines compete, notably from El Paso to New Orleans. S. P. now controls St. Louis Southwestern ("The Cotton Belt") and can compete with the Van Sweringens' MOP directly into St. Louis. It will be Vice Chairman Shoup's job to follow the course of S. P.'s eastbound shipments. trying to persuade shippers against diverting them to competing lines, and to originate business...
...scrip which will receive 5% interest in cash. Until full interest is paid, a bondholders' committee will manage the road. It was made plain last week that all bondholders must approve of the plan, that recalcitrant holders may not expect special profits such as accrued to the St. Louis Southwestern holdouts. The plan bears the endorsements of the system's bankers (Dillon, Read, Chase Harris Forbes, J. & W. Seligman, Chemical Bank & Trust) and of insurance companies (Metropolitan, Prudential) with big holdings of Frisco bonds...
...Authoress Mary Austin's introduction to this collection of tales, folk, historical and otherways, she writes of the late Author Applegate's collecting of the various handicrafts of New Mexico's varied groups as his initiation into the mosaic racial pattern of Southwestern culture. "Through his sympathy with the things created, he came into touch with the things experienced." These experiencings, reaching him first by native word-of-mouth, he gracefully transcribes in full-flavored variety. A specimen...
...Bulldozer" is technical rodeo term {Continued on p. 50) {Continued from p. 6) for his act and those who these days throw steers-by horns. How necessity-danger-was responsible for Pickett's act is an interesting tale: It seems he vyas a "hand" on a Southwestern ranch, was helping load cattle, went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute did not give Pickett time to get out and back on the Runways or "prodding boards" but sent an infuriated beast down the chute just as Pickett started...
...Dean George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, and a sermon, broadcast to the U. S. by stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach...