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...knows how many thousands of miles of U. S. railroads will have to be reorganized before the Depression can be called over. At least a half-dozen more big railroad failures are freely predicted. No one knows how wisely that mileage will be reorganized. But one thing is certain: Jesse Jones, as the railroads' biggest single creditor, will have his say at the council tables. And Jesse Jones is a stern realist when it comes to money long lost forever...
...cronies are Steelman Myron Taylor, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Fabulous stories surround his passion for outdoor life. He owns four miles of trout stream in New York's gamey Beaver Kill, issued gold-engraved membership cards to a half-dozen friends. In North Carolina "Joe" Knapp owns Knotts Island, a 5,000-acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian...
...plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent to jail. This order violates a half-dozen provisions of the Constitution...
...stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women and eight men picked to judge the guilt or innocence of the young Bronx carpenter both sides appeared to be satisfied...
...distance of the shocks from the recording station can be readily deduced from the difference in time of arrival of the P and S waves, since their speeds are known. Direction is much harder to determine, even with a half-dozen instruments lined up facing different points of the compass. Frequently it is necessary for three widely separated stations to compare their distance figures before the quake can be located...