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Month ago Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. asked the President for permission to replace the White House telephones on twelve trunk lines with dial instruments. Fond though he is of mechanical efficiency, the President declined to work his finger instead of his voice...
Standing dramatically before a battered trunk, from which he pulled an Italian uniform "uncomfortably too large" for him, Signer Antonio Pizzuco said last week...
Wabash (which is the first of the trunk lines to approve of the I. C. C. Consolidation Plan. Shrewd Chairman William H. Williams lately advised the Commission that he had been authorized by his directors to "acquire" the railroads allocated to the Wabash in the Final Plan...
...Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME, Sept...
...Commission last week received from its assistant finance director who had examined the matter, a recommendation to reject the plan of Leonor Fresnel Loree, bushy-bearded Delaware & Hudson R. R. president, to build a 344-mile line across Pennsylvania as the main link in a new New York-Chicago Trunk Line. Reason: public convenience did not necessitate the construction cost of $200,000,000; no new traffic would be created...