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...defense. The public seemed interested not so much in what Mayor Walker had done-$26,535 seemed small potatoes indeed for a man of his parts-as in if and how he would elude punishment. After Inquisitor Seabury had further showed last week that the promoters of a bus company had bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit, later extended by $3,000, for his junket to Europe in 1927, the chase approached its most exciting stage-Mayor Walker on the stand in his own defense...
Inquisitor Seabury attempted to show how, in 1925, the Messrs. Hastings & Walker got into the Equitable Coach Co. deal, a grandiose but fruitless scheme to get a city franchise, start a bus line, swap stock and concessions with other municipal services and ultimately control the city's entire privately-owned transit system. "A little syndicate" was formed with $282,000 worth of contributions from three members: Frank R. Fageol of Kent, Ohio, builder of motor coaches; his vice president Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foamite Corp.); President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...
...kill the notion that flying is still an erratic member of the transportation family, airway operators have turned from merely peddling tickets to selling fast, complete transportation facilities combining air, rail & bus. Slogans have been softened from "Fly" to "Travel By Air." Having learned that over two-thirds of their passengers are executives or salesmen, traffic departments are out to educate U. S. business to save time & money through the use of coordinated air transport. Skylines, one of the industry's useful timetable monthlies, quoted last month from the experience of a roving executive who cut a trip from...
...most of our leading streetcorners blind persons will now find maps in high relief," said Long Heinrich. "By feeling these maps the blind will be able to direct themselves to subway stations, street car and bus stops, and generally to find their way around Berlin with the minimum possible inconvenience...
...truncated, pusher-type two-seater, fitted purposely to suggest the oldtime Model '"T" Ford (TIME, April 13, 1931). It approached in form the plane which he foresees, a plane which will "stand on the ground horizontally instead of at a slant ... be reminiscent of a motor car or bus . . . have upholstery or trim so that one repeats some previous feeling of transportation security. . . ." If it is also foolproof, U. S. wives will say to U. S. husbands : "You can fly in that and I will go with you." And U. S. husbands will buy airplanes...