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...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...
They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
...James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, ingoing A. M. A. president and crack dietary expert, drew respectful attention when he declared: "The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful. The cheaper cereals can be used as the mainstay of the diet, provided properly selected supplementary foods, such as liver and lettuce, are added in suitable amounts. Because of its high supplementary value in a diet of cereals as well as of other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today...
...Loan & Trust Co. Handsome, moose-tall Dean Worcester, who married a daughter of Novelist Arthur Train, had graduated from Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become an engineer for New York Telephone Co. As assistant secretary he distinguished himself at the Stock Exchange early in Depression as a crack trouble-shooter and inside man. In 1930 he was made an officer and director of New York Quotation Co. Last week the Stock Exchange governors promoted Dean Worcester, 37, from assistant secretary to the new post of executive vice president. As such he will be the No. 1 administrative officer...
Thus, in one mighty breath, does Jack Barrowcliffe nightly dispatch from Chicago's La Salle Street Station the Golden State Limited, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific's crack express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more...