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More than 75% of Chicago's passenger traffic is handled by a vast system of street cars and busses. Chief rapid transit the city proper has is furnished by its far-flung 41-year-old elevated railway system, 14 lines that creep and clang counterclockwise around the "Loop" encircling the 7 by 6-block financial and mercantile district before heading back toward the city's outskirts. Inside the "Loop," the property values are as high as the 45-story Field Building; outside they fall off just as steeply...
...nations the good-willers necessarily had to pass through other countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...
...than one of skinning a Yankee. In July, Furness Line boats adopted the ship-hotel plan themselves, right in Hamilton harbor. This time hotels ashore really felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject to approval of the British...
...operating chief, Sam Insull knew no peer. His network of gas, light, power and transit companies spread over 32 States from North Dakota to Florida to Maine, served some 10,000,000 people, had securities with a market value of over three billion dollars, had combined earning power of a half billion a year. Sam Insull, however, was not content to be known as an operating genius alone. Through an elaborate series of investment trusts and holding companies, he proceeded to acquire stock control of those same utilities which he already controlled through good management. Because others were bidding against...
...Baltimore firm of W. T. Shackelford & Co. lost National Distillers-policies between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. Through Joseph P. Kennedy came policies insuring Scotch whiskeys in overseas transit. "Jimmy became, by a wide margin, the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America...