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...Service, for a number of years prior to 1923, there was an average of one passenger casualty on U. S. railroads for about every 2,000,000 miles. There is a vast difference between a fatality and a casualty and, even if the information given in the footnote were correct, the comparison is not justified. Believing that you would be interested in accurate data as to fatalitities and casualties on American railroads, I quote the following from a letter 1 have received from Mr. B. B. Adams of the Railway Age, New York, in response to my letter in which...
...article published some years ago in the Cosmopolitan Magazine it was said of Mr. Rockefeller Jr.: "He is an utterly negative person. . . ." Negatives stated of him in another magazine were: ''He has no personal enemies. . . . His altruism has never been questioned." These statements were based on correct, if casual, considerations of his ethics, his philanthropies, his business...
Chairman Cheek of the Committee has urged men to apply today because the applications are complicated and if there should be a mistake in one handed in too late to afford time to correct it, the applicants would be left out of the draw...
...early hour of the evening, M. Herbette ascended the steps which led to the Russian Embassy. The doors were opened by powdered and uniformed valets. A moment later the Bolshevik Ambassador dressed in correct capitalistic attire greeted his guest, who was then introduced to Mme. Krassin and the Miles. Krassin, all wearing the latest and most expensive of Paris "creations." M. Herbette was glad that he was wearing a white...
Intelligence Metre. A machine to give intelligence tests, which holds up a printed question until a key is pressed giving an answer, was described. It records the number of correct answers or, in cases where there are several possible answers, the number of answers made before the right one is given.-Dr. S. L. Pressey, Ohio State University...