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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other U. S. railroader except Baltimore & Ohio's venerable ''Uncle Dan" Willard. He is also a pioneer of new railroading wrinkles...
This was one man's opinion. Cities Service and the industry nevertheless guessed that SEC's would not be very different. The view drew weight from the condition of Cities Service preferred and preference stock, on which are owed $30,937,338 in back dividends. Except by selling isolated properties, Cities Service might well have trouble raising new money for expansion in case its industrial customers need many more kilowatts for rearmament...
American Export Lines, whose development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea trade was the most profitable post-war achievement of the U. S. merchant marine, must now content itself with calls at Lisbon. But no strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce...
...Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. (subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) was tooling up a division of its Butler (Pa.) plant to handle a $3,000,000 Allied order for 200,000 six-inch shell forgings (complete except for powder...
Gregor, less astute, stayed in the Party. In 1933 he was within an ace of the Chancellorship; in 1934 he was murdered. Otto, from 1930 on, set to work organizing his Black Front. The top fourth stayed aboveground. The rest took places high & low in every Party except the Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland...