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North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
...interrelation of these banks, latest to fail, was intimate. They belonged to a chain of 120 banks, financed and supported by the Bankers' Trust Co. of Atlanta, Ga. (W. D. Manley, president; Paul J. Baker, treasurer). Part of its policy was to insure the deposits of allied institutions. Therefore when the Umatilla (Fla.) Bank discovered that some of its $441,500 deposits in the Bankers' Trust Co. were going to cover the closures of the Bank of Dania (TIME, July 12) and of others in similar predicament, the Umatilla officials applied for, and obtained, a receivership against...
...messengers pedal bicycles. Its directors ride horseback, sail boats, drive roadsters. Last week it began operating airplanes. The Company had not only contracted for the airmail route between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., but undertook a passenger service as well. This seventh link* in the country's airmail chain is 123 miles long, from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Hoover Field. Seven passengers made the first trip, among them Airplane Designer Anthony H. G. Fokker of Holland and New York...
...another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled up raging...
Dime store business (not to be confused with many other types of chain stores) is increasing much more than is the business of department stores. Thus the latter's sales are only one-third greater than they were in 1919, whereas those of their unpretentious competitors have doubled in the past 17 years (Department of Commerce Index...