Word: carriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report last week, shook a warning finger at non-carrier holding corporations which gain control of two or more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its plan for rail consolidations "is very likely to be partially or even wholly defeated." The Commission admitted that for such a new threat it could not find an appropriate remedy...
Warned the Commission: "The Pennroad Co., by acquiring stock control of a railroad, can bring it under common control with the Pennsylvania without itself controlling or being controlled by the latter carrier as such. . . . Common control can be effected by a chain, one vital link in which is made up of the control exercised, directly or indirectly, over two or more corporations by individuals. . . . [This] may result in the suppression of competition...
...compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...
...Mayor James Gifford Newbegin of Tacoma, Wash., had cause last week to be glad he had remembered a statistic about the Navy's 33,000-ton airplane carrier Lexington...
Harvard's scoring has been done for the most part by J. F. Schereschewsky '32, a powerful carrier, who even when tackled throws his body forward and gains several more yards. In the line, Captain R. H. Johnson '31 has proved himself a steady, dependable man at tackle...