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Though only one of the French Railways Chemin de Fer de l'Etat is officially state-owned, all French railways are heavily subsidized, cost the Government between $198,000,000 and $264,000,000 a year. Spurred by Premier Doumergue, Minister of Public works Pierre Etienne Flandin presented a plan last week to cut (wo billion francs a year from this charge by replacing 6,000 mi. of secondary lines by passenger and freight buses and trimming 60,000 employes from the rolls. He further proposed to cut the pay and pensions of all other employes. With luck. this...
...Casino at Monte Carlo was crowded last week for the first time since France, Italy, Germany and Austria greedily legalized chemin de fer and roulette and plunged little Monaco into Depression. True, the crowds were not around the tables but they were inside, and the directors were chuckling that it at least looked like old times. In jam-packed rows the crowds stood dumbly around one cashier's cage, staring. On the counter stood three gleaming cylinders of neatly piled gold pieces, ready to pay off the winners at one table. They were...
...Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzès, as Wolf Lieutenant for the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, was Baron Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild Bank in France, regent of the Bank of France, president of the Counsel of Administration of the Chemin de fer du Nord...
North. Under Agua Caliente's bizarre red roofs and stucco walls are gambling rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua...
Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...