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...Connecticut Railway & Lifting leased its gas, electric and street railway properties for 999 years to Consolidated Railway Co., which was later absorbed by New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. New Haven sublet the gas and electric properties to Connecticut Light & Power Co. The traction properties were sublet to a New Haven subsidiary called Connecticut Co. Last year all Connecticut Railway & Lighting had to do was collect $1,400,000 per year from its leases, distribute interest and dividends pay taxes. More than $1,000,000 of its income was derived from the traction properties, not because the streetcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Connecticut Confession | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...mail contractor should merge with another and no contract should be sublet or sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Turnback | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...those traditional enemies the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News, thus: Last year Clifford Henderson, longtime air-race promoter, went on the road to place the 1933 meet. Cleveland, which had a five-year option on the races and which took a loss last year, was anxious to sublet this year's meet to another city. Privately the Cleveland committee wanted Promoter Henderson to take the show to the Pacific Coast for two reasons: 1) California wanted it. 2) The farther from Cleveland in 1933, the stronger the comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Races | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...Ruthless," grumbled the official refugees as they stood on the Saint Lazare platform. Many had had six clays or less to sell or sublet their homes at a loss, dismiss their servants, recall children from school, wind up their bureaus' affairs, pack up, get out. The William L. Fingers of Paris fondled a month-old baby. Their plight was no less unpleasant than that of able Chief Commercial Attache Fayette W. Allport, who had recently given up a $25,000-a-year job to return to the service. Behind them they left two Commerce representatives to keep each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lost Souls | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, the 1933 National Air Races were sublet to Los Angeles by Cleveland, the city which has control over them for the next eight years but was glad to get rid of them for a spell because they were costing too much money. The meet, stripped of usual stunt exhibits and daredeviltry, will be held July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Chicago Races | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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