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William Z. Ripley, professor of economics at Harvard, emeritus, and author of the preliminary plan for consolidation of the nation's railroad systems, has left Cambridge to confer with President Hoover. Professor Ripley, in an article published in World's Work today, states that consolidation in trunk-line territory is necessary if railroads are to continue to operate. It is understood that his conference with President Hoover had to do with his railroad merger plan...
...decision, numbers in two telephone exchanges could not be reached, warning lights flashed on the alarm board of the Holmes Electric Patrol, police were summoned to find the source of the trouble. Source: Fishermen Kozinsky, Colderia, Torba and Torba had discovered and sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited...
Direct utilization of the airways by the two rail companies might take two aspects: the speeding of travel along principal trunk lines by combined air-&-rail service, and the operation of air lines where it is not practicable to build branch roads...
East. The Eastern revision applies to "Official Territory" (east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, including New England). Its purpose: to remove rate discriminations between population centres and producing areas. Most fundamental changes are those made in Trunk Line Territory (which mainly includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia). The rate system that has prevailed there for 54 years is overthrown in favor of a more consistent and harmonious system based chiefly on distance. The rest of Official Territory already has this distance basis, which is the basis used...
...Philip A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine Co. fame, and vice president of Roosevelt Steamship Co. This latter company is much involved in Baltimore Mail. With Baltimore Trust Co., it led in organizing the new line, and the mail contract is in its name. Baltimore's two trunk railroads, Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio, are also represented among the line's directors. Pennsylvania has a financial interest, will supply rail connections, will let the new line dock at its Canton Co. Terminal, where about $5,000,000 will be spent on improvements...