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...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
...much concern to Rev. Mother Katherine and to me that the impression created in the minds of your readers by these statements be corrected and anything you can do to bring this about will be very much appreciated...
...other depression has the Government taken a hand. But this time, after the first shock, in the autumn of 1929, the President called a conference of business leaders. His concern was for the working people. . . . The President's foresight and prompt action upheld the wage scale for a year and a half in the face of constantly diminishing profits. Then the Government created emergency jobs for workers who otherwise would have had none...
Neither fame nor flying ability is of prime concern to hard-headed bankers. Five months ago "Casey" Jones was eased out of Curtiss-Wright's executive offices in Manhattan to manage two Long Island fields. Last week he resigned, said he felt "entitled to a vacation" after 14 years with the company. There was talk that he would open a flying school in Newark, and that he is considering offers to act with Richard Barthelmess in a film of Transport Pilot 13, "Casey" Jones's biography on which he is collaborating with Adman Guy Fowler...
...Carnegie Foundation's recent report on college admissions presents a solution to the problem which, while it is new, is very much experimental. Taking the stand that "the swollen and unwholesome concern with mere admission to college" is greatly over-emphasized, the Foundation objects to both certification and admission by examination as criterions of a student's eligibility to enter college. Instead, the report recommends "a true chart and record of the pupil's activities" to show his fitness for further study, and to give an indication of the most suitable field for him. In addition tests are suggested...