Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island, a late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean...
...near the Yungtingmen Gate, he began shooting, apparently to set off a pre-arranged uprising within the city. This idea fizzled. The Peiping garrison, properly warned, swarmed to the Outer Wall, shut and sandbagged the central gate and answered the attackers' fire. The train ground to a stop, began backing up, backed out into the night. Past midnight it came chugging back, this time spitting bullets from every window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally into the way of a trench...
...first stop in Peoria more than 400 retailers boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
Even in St. Louis, Chicago's traditional rival for leadership of the Mississippi Valley wholesale trade, buyers swarmed aboard before the staff had finished breakfast. As soon as the train was on siding at each stop telephones were hooked up with local exchanges so that customers and prospects could be invited aboard. A teletype in the office car clicked out rush orders direct to Chicago. Marshall Field's divulged no official sales figure but newsmen who accompanied the expedition estimated sales for the first seven days of the trip...
...Jones to appear for a hearing last week. Mr. Jones sent his lawyer. The Commission refused to listen to that gentleman until he asked if he could withdraw the application. Uprose SECounsel John J. Burns to bellow: "You can't go up under the gun of a stop order and then seek to avoid...