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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article on double-header movies, p. 28 of TIME, Oct. 18, you fail to mention one all-important detail of Fanchon & Marco's St. Louis poll. Were the audiences polled attending doubleheaders? If so, the fact that there was a 7-to-3 preference for double-features is of little significance-beyond indicating how much the 3-group will take to see the movie it wants...
...easy task. But the performance of the team against Clemson and Columbia showed how well it had been done, as Army triumphed 21-6 and 21-18. The team slumped against Yale to lose 15-7, but came back a week later to overwhelm Washington University of St. Louis 46-7, and went on to down Virginia Military Institute...
...with the company, rather than the Railroad Administration, was made assistant to the president, assigned the duty of checking how the Government was using and abusing the road. He guessed right, for when the roads went back to private ownership in 1920, he was sent to St. Louis as vice president of Southern's subsidiary, Mobile & Ohio. Later at a Government hearing he was asked in what condition he found the M. & O. "It looked," he testified, "like a widow's back yard...
...long did the M. & O., which runs from St. Louis to the Gulf, look like a widow's back yard. In the booming middle twenties it paid dividends and plowed earnings back into the plant. Then came Depression and a combination of new natural gas and oil pipe lines, improved highways and two Government-subsidized barge lines made traffic pickings so slim in the Mississippi Valley that the M. & O. derailed into receivership. Railroader Norris was receiver until the Southern called him back to Washington...
...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...