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...Last week not the bridge but the company of the same name which owns it began to sway dangerously. Business depression has caused traffic to fall off. Competing ferries have cut their rates viciously rather than go out of business. Traffic has been diverted into the new Detroit-Canada Tunnel. During 1930 toll revenue was $892,000, operating expenses?$328,000. But by the time all charges were computed the bridge company had a $1,367,000 loss. Last week common and preferred stockholders realized they had no equity behind their securities, holders of the $8,000,000 7% debentures...
...postponing as long as possible the moment for the next conference, he extemporizes while the cameras watch. He is perfectly cast as a kleptomaniac. When he needs a smoke, the man sitting next him in the Pullman smoking room misses some cigars. When the train goes through a short tunnel, the same passenger also misses his ticket. Arriving at his destination, a health farm, Errol poses as a detective and makes a bellboy (Stuart Erwin) admire him so much that the bellboy has to be given lessons on how to be a detective. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian are present...
Sirs: The story goes that an old woman was interestedly engaged in examining the contents of her lunch basket when her train, suddenly and unexpectedly, rushed into a tunnel. She is reported to have thrown up her hands and cried "My God struck stone blind!" You can relate a similar experience to the American, who finds himself in Florence, Italy, deprived of your valued publication TIME- struck stone blind...
...other vehicular tunnels are municipal or State projects. Unique, the Detroit &; Canada Tunnel Co. is a private concern. Boosting stock sales last week, its directors announced an investment of $25,000,000, anticipated earnings of some two million dollars a year...
Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...