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Twenty-seven year old Harry Elkins Widener was always worried about what he would give to Harvard. A young book collector and heir to transit-car millions, he could not, however, compete with J. P. Morgan for the rarer editions at auctions. Before he left for Europe in the spring of 1912, he considered either establishing a bibliography chair at Harvard, or giving the University a fireproof library...
Rapid suburban growth, more automobiles, choked traffic, inadequate parking, and poor public transit have finally forced the retailer to switch his tactics to catch up with the people...
...despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...
...Chicago, frugal Anna Cox, 74, a street-corner peddler of notions, disclosed that her address for the past seven years has been the Chicago Transit Authority. When room rents went up, Anna Cox took to the streetcars at night. "A trolley's got a rooming house beat a mile for comfort," she said, "and it's a sight cheaper." She kept a change of clothes in a warehouse, freshened up in public toilets, lived on vegetables and fruit, always paid her full fare ($7.14 a week). "I don't sleep as well in a bed," she explained...
...eviction is underway. Thousands of Kikuyus are being bundled into boxcars and shipped to overcrowded reserves, even sitting on car roofs with arms linked so as not to fall off. One transit camp is a barbed-wire enclosure on Nakuru racecourse, where evicted Kukes are huddled together in the horses' stalls. Kenya's jails are already overflowing with an estimated 20,000 Kukes...