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Promoted. Thomas P. Tunney, brother of heavyweight boxing champion James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney* from third grade to second grade detective in the New York City Police Department, from a salary of $2,500 to $2,750; because he had aided in the capture of a onetime convict who was wanted for a series of bold hold ups in Los Angeles...
...Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...
...industry at South Bend, Ind. At Buffalo, N. Y., 450 miles away, President Myron E. Forbes of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. also has a not so thriving industry, with assets of $24,373,000. These facts, plus the reasonable inference that Studebaker might specialize on one grade of car and Pierce-Arrow on another, plus the further fact that President Erskine last week admitted he has been having informal conversations with President Forbes on the subject, indicated that a Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow merger was possible. But nothing definite has happened in that specific regard...
...where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every one of its 42 years of existence and had $45.344,701 gross revenue last year...
Last week the U. S.'s biggest trademarked food company bought out the biggest-selling high-grade brand of coffee-paying for it the equivalent of 66 million dollars...