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...Hamilton, who sold G. M. on the idea of going into the business and has been smart enough to carry on as Electro-Motive's president, explains: each oil-burning Diesel switcher brings its purchaser an average yearly operating saving of about $17,000. Sour-grapes reason given by Hamilton's competitors: with the amount of traffic which General Motors can dangle before the railroads, it could sell them dog sleds...
...Liberal (Lloyd George is No. 1), famed Sir John Simon. The Crown's major champion will be a former Liberal who suddenly switched into the Labor Party when Scot MacDonald offered him the post of Attorney General of Great Britain in the second Labor Government. Switcher Sir William Jowitt was elected a Liberal M. P. at the last general election (1929), but later in a by-election was returned as Labor M. P. by his old constituents...