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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert Beal, 37, became president of Auburn Automobile Co, as busy Errett Lobban Cord, 38, retired to the chairmanship. Mr. Beal has worked for Auburn's unit, Lycoming Manufacturing Co., since 1919. In 1931 Mr. Cord withdrew into the chairmanship for ten months. Currently he needs freedom to attend to his interest in Aviation Corp...
...should have had successively two such presidents as Mr. Eliot and Mr. Lowell. Here were two Caesars. Whence will come such another? President Eliot created the university, and in so doing set the type and standard for American universities. President Lowell saved the Lineral Arts College as an academic unit in the American scheme of education at a moment when it was threatened with absorption into the professional schools or with dissolution into a junior college or a vocational hodge-podge. The work of both men examplifies the little-understood principle that if you do well the work in your...
Elimination of the smoke nuisance and diminution of congestion in switching terminals, as well as faster and more comfortable transportation, were chief results of the electrification. Multiple-unit trains are used throughout, each car having its individual motor equipment. This eliminates the use of locomotives and enables the Lackawanna to reduce the time on runs...
Carry Nation (by Frank McGrath; Theatre Unit, Inc., producer). If tight-faced, quixotic little Carry Nation was not insane, according to the McGrath play which claims to be "substantially true," she was close as a toucher to it. Her father was religiously fanatical, had Carry baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form...
Seatrain's counterpart by land appeared last week when the Alton, now a unit of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was permitted to carry loaded trucks on flat cars between Chicago and East St. Louis. Trucks up to 20 tons are accepted, loaded and unloaded at the truck firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered...