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...m.p.h. faster than other U. S. expresses operate. The new train may make the long run between Omaha and Los Angeles in 30 hr. The steam journey now takes 48 hr. Speed, Union Pacific men hope, will provide effective competition against air travel. Cheap operating costs may beat bus transportation...
Other experiments with streamlined rail transportation deal with single, separately motored cars. Michigan Central has a gasoline-driven car which is virtually a flanged-wheel motor bus. It does 70 to 90 m.p.h. Philadelphia & Western is using 50 m.p.h. streamlined interurban coaches driven electrically from third rails. France has several gasoline-motored streamlined buses on rails. One, a Bugatti. can do 110 m.p.h., may go on a regular Paris-Deauville run this summer...
Like a balky bus. the Disarmament Conference moves fitfully. It took a tremendous leap forward last week when diplomats in Rome agreed to a revised version of Benito Mussolini's Four-Power Pact, when U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis pledged a mild degree of U. S. co-operation in enforcing peace (TIME, May 29). Last week the bus jolted to an abrupt halt. Brakes were applied by French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour before even his own Prime Minister realized...
...rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets $100,000 and has an option on 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward stock at $11 (TIME, April 10), President Sewell Lee Avery was questioned by stockholders at their annual meeting, explained that he had refused an offer...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...