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Thus had White House pressure and the cry of Hard Times broken the decade-long deadlock on eastern mergers. For the last ten years these same rail executives had been fighting a stockmarket battle for possession of subsidiary roads as part of their trunk systems, had been snatching at all independent trackage in the country's rail territory to keep it out of their rival's hands. So bitter and reckless had become their operations that the Interstate Commerce Commission had cried out in loud protest while the Senate had passed a resolution to suspend temporarily all mergers...
...Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads for defensive purposes in 1927 when eastern trunk lines were scrambling to enlarge their systems. Under the Commission's merger plan the Wabash and Lehigh Valley would be joined in a separate system combining the Wheeling & Lake Erie, Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western, Seaboard Air Line. Western Maryland, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...undergraduates may attend the class in the special exercise room of the new Indoor Athletic Building. The work, lead by Fradd, consists of heavy trunk-developing work on the mats and exercises on the stall bars...
...city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were...
...Helen Robbins, socialite wife of Herbert D. Robbins, retired Manhattan drug man (McKesson & Robbins), just home from Europe, approached a customs inspector who was about to examine her luggage. Said she: "There are twelve bottles of liquor in my trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why-why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston...