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Railroad executives, aware that Southern and Western roads would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...
...life some of you lead is not theory to me, it is reality. I have known what it is to have only one meal a day, which I could afford to pay only tuppence ha'penny...
...designers say the car has made 90 m.p.h., will make more. It resembles the fuselage of an airplane, with no protruding wind-resisting parts. The body is aluminum alloy. The centre of gravity is low for safety. Tests showed the streamline construction would afford a power reduction of 17% at 20 m.p.h., 42½% at 90 m.p.h. It was designed by President Thomas Conway Jr. of Philadelphia & Western; Felix Pawlowski, Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at the University of Michigan; and Brill Co. experts. President Conway, meeting competition by Pennsylvania R. R. and Reading Co., expects to beat their time...
...George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president of the Campbell company) and his lawyers insist that his only permanent residence from 1910 was at Pomona Farms, Burlington County, N. J., not far from the great soup factory at Camden; that he bought Woodcrest to afford his five children social & educational advantages. Executors of the estate had already begun to pay $12,000,000 tax to the State of New Jersey on an appraisal there of $114,850,733. Federal taxes of $9,500,000 were paid...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill can afford to relax his stern face occasionally and smile on life. Equipped with proven genius, he is comparatively a young man. Money rolls in from Strange Interlude, still on the road. The kudos he has received may be only a sample of what is to come. Above all a living writer, he looks steadfastly to the future, scorns any present estimate of his work, explains: "It seems to me that there is too damned much of that sort of thing being done in America...