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...barring troop movements on a hitherto unheard-of scale, there is still no evidence that travel by rail must be limited to essential trips. Most railroaders agree with the harried Union Pacific official who held his head last week and groaned: "Our dispatchers are collecting the damnedest set of ulcers you ever saw . . . but the only thing we have had to do is to tell some of these guys that, if they don't mind an upper, they can have it now. That's all it has really meant-changing the habits of the way people travel...
Fahey had published a revised, wartime edition of his Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a compendium on the U.S. Navy more complete even than Jane's famed Fighting Ships.* The public grabbed copies for a first look at many heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...
After Author Steinbeck had acquired success and a bank account,† he brooded over his wayward Flat, offered $10,000 to remove it from the Hollywood market. This virtually unheard-of maneuver produced its almost inevitable result: Flat became a movie...
...musicians got paid a cent, not even the conductor. On the contrary, every one of them had to pay 25?. The Rehearsal Symphony, which meets twice a month in a Los Angeles auditorium, is the only U.S. orchestra of professional caliber which plays unpaid, almost unheard-in short, strictly...
...head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew to $35,000,000 before he quit in 1910, and the Rockefeller family and foundations have since given another $35,000,000. In 1906, having assured his university's permanence...