Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is a perfect example of the kind of thing that drives competent educational authorities toward nervous breakdowns. On the one hand, a basic reality of education is recognized as needing more attention, and that attention is given it. On the other, an institution purporting to train teachers acts on the assumption that the primary tasks of education have been conquered so effectively that the profession may now be indulged in recreational side issues...
Last week Your Wings, still a best selling book on aviation, seemed headed for another zoom. With the Civil Aeronautics Authority starting a drive to train 20,000 pilots annually in U. S. colleges and universities, Assen Jordanoff's dialogues were easily the most readable preliminary instructions available...
Would this ultimate in rate-slashing produce a compensating increase in traffic? Although passengers provide only 10% of total U. S. train revenue, most Eastern roads get an abnormal share of their revenue from passengers (the New Haven gets 36%). For them, the success of postalized fares would probably depend on whether the bargain rates for commuters inspired an exodus to the "suburban zones...
...water. Daily he commutes between Chicago and suburban Highland Park, where he has a landscaped "farm" complete with boat landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest; farming and sailing are his hobbies...
Groceryman Kunin jokingly proposed a merger: "With your brand names and reputation and my business methods, we can go places." Groceryman Dennehy laughed it off. But next time the two met on the train they joked some more about a merger...