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England, the cradle of the Railway, is still served by world's fastest non-stop trains. Last week, England's first regularly operating sleeping-bus service, a rival of its railways, began operation. Twelve sleepers rumbled out of Newcastle in the premiere sleeping-bus, which made the 254-mile run to London before breakfast time. On the way the bus stopped at Darlington Station from which, in 1825, chuffed forth the first steam train. Each sleeper was served "early morning tea" in his sleeping-berth...
Magazines. In the field of trade journals, where editorial problems are simple, profits great, was a merger: A. W. Shaw Co. (Magazine of Business, System) and McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc. (Electrical World, Coal Age, Radio Retailing, Bus Transportation, and many another...
...hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left the job of paying the prize-money. "Each and every one of you will get your cash, boys-Cold Cash -that's my name. . . . Come to me next week . . ." cried...
...Travis of Oakland, Calif., go the kudos and the profit of arranging for the transcontinental motor stage system. He is president of the California Transit Co., which maintains a daily bus service between Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., 670 miles. That route is the spine of the score of bus lines it operates along the Pacific Coast. Last year its revenues were...
Early in May, Mr. Travis and associates incorporated the American Motor Transportation Co. in Delaware to take over the operating rights and facilities of several bus lines in the East and Midwest. And last week (a fortnight later) Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, investment house was selling preferred stock in the company. California Transit controls the voting stock. Mr. Travis is president of both companies...