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West from Hardin, Mont, one day last week rolled a remarkable caravan bound on an extraordinary journey. Thundering in line went three huge trucks with trailers, a fleet of small trucks and passenger automobiles. The trucks carried six $6,800 tractors, four giant plows, four seeding outfits, a mass of trip hammers, lathes, forges, tools. They were bound through snowy valleys and over icy mountains for California's warm, rich San Joaquin Valley and the newest venture of Tom Campbell, world's No. 1 Big Farmer...
...agreement with employes made in 1927, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad must place two men in the cab of every ordinary locomotive. For modern streamline engines there is no such contract. Hence, when the railroad acquired its fleet of four Diesel Zephyrs and three Diesel switch engines, it hired only one engineer for each. To substitute for the other man, it installed the "dead man's control"-a device which automatically halts the train if the engineer is forced by some emergency to take his hand from the throttle...
...exceedingly fleet "strategic retreat" last week, Ethiopian forces under redoubtable Kassa Sebat executed the "maneuver of luring" Italian General Ruggiero Santini into ordering a whole Army corps to separate from the main Italian advance on the Northern Front and chase Ethiopians headlong, risky in Ethiopia's wilds...
Died. John Rushworth ("Hell Fire Jack") Jellicoe,first Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 75, Britain's Wartime Commander of the Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled...
...second half of the question, namely Might and Rearmament, the chief local contest was that waged around the Admiralty's accredited "Big Navy" champion, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. He made the outstanding gain of the election by an individual Conservative. Obviously no local counts were of much significance, but those for Right & Might, as exemplified by Captain Eden's meagre victory and Admiral Keyes's rousing triumph, caught the fancy of election wiseacres...