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...Baltimore last week arrived the steamship City of Elwood with one python. When the City of Elwood left Shanghai it had two pythons aboard. One escaped in Manila, wandered ashore. Near a native's hut it saw a pig, which it swallowed. The pig was tied to the hut. Three days later the native found the python dying of indigestion...
...Southern Pacific's old plan (which will continue until Aug. 1). the road had two divisions separated at El Paso. The western lines were run by Paul Shoup, president of the company since Jan. 1, 1929 when he succeeded William Sproule. The eastern rail and steamship lines were managed by Angus Daniel McDonald, vice chairman of the executive committee which in turn was headed by Hale Hol den. oldtime chief of the Burlington, whose son is Pullman Inc.'s eastern vice president. By last week's changes Mr. McDonald becomes president of the company, making him operating...
...enter the shipbuilding field. Later he formed American Ship & Commerce Corp., an ambitious scheme for international trade. In 1926 the company sold most of its vessels to Hamburg-American and is still liquidating its shipbuilding and heavy machinery business. Mr. Harriman is a director also of American Hawaiian Steamship...
...kill the donkeys, feed them "to the lions (TIME, June 27). Last week the announcement brought the response the board had doubtless expected. From his estate near Philadelphia, Walter McKinney, onetime Texan, telegraphed an offer of $187.50 for the 25 donkeys at $7.50 each, ordered them shipped via Southern Steamship Co. (of which he is assistant to the president) to his home. Said he: "My boys can make better use of them than the lions...
...cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York. N. Y., master locksmith, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might...