Word: probing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POSTAL ENVELOPE JOB FACES PROBE...
Three groups, including 10,000 railroaders, met at Atlantic City for a searching probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will resist any effort by Congress to usurp their rights in utility regulation...
...Senator duPont had only lately had his larynx removed. Senator Walsh's eyes were bothering him and, hearing he was to have teeth extracted, some people wished the teeth could be removed from his methods at the same time. Having conducted the Oil Inquiry, he now plans a Power Probe...