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...commenced the Army's biggest tactical air maneuvers on the Pacific Coast. The problem: expulsion of an enemy entirely by aircraft. For three weeks the first provisional wing of the Army Air Corps-the same squadrons and men that would be immediately concentrated in event of real war-would fight its invisible foe by day, would transform Mather Field into a gigantic metal rookery at sundown...
...Sweringen. He cited the fact that Pennroad was buying heavily into Boston & Maine and New York, New Haven & Hartford. He warned that if Pennsylvania enters the New England territory, it will be absolutely contrary to the I. C. C.'s merger plan. Likewise Pennroad is buying into Atlantic Coast Line, Southern, and already controls 15% of Seaboard Air Line. It has gobbled up Detroit, Toledo & Ironton which the I. C. C. assigned to Baltimore & Ohio...
Charleston, leisurely, unprogressive, socially high-headed, remains today an antique among U. S. cities. The Atlantic Coast Line's best Florida trains skip Charleston; likewise Clyde Steamship Co.'s New York-Florida express boats. Its business men lunch at 2:30, return to work at 4, if at all. Many contend, visitors as well as citizens, that it is the most civilized city...
...this sort of movement which famed Mahatma Gandhi started last week at Dandi, a miserable little beach town on the west coast of India. Wading into the warm rollers of the Arabian Sea, he and 76 followers scooped up a little water, set it on the beach to be evaporated by the sun, thus broke the British law which makes the extraction or sale of salt a British monopoly...
...carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance for each passenger. The safety record is held by the Pittsburgh division with 12,000,000 people carried in four years without a fatality. Between San Francisco and Los Angeles run Greyhound sleeper busses...