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...improve interurban and maritime transport, the Council of Labor and Defense made two important rulings last week. At present important Russian trains arrive at their destinations from two to 24 hours late. The Council decreed that in future the pay of locomotive engineers would be docked for lateness, that all train crews would be paid on a piecework basis. All train crews must run 1,125 miles or 192 hours each 30 days. If the average is less than that, pay is docked: if it is more, pay is increased...
...went to work in the general offices of Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rr. (later New York Central). At the age of 24 he was made general agent for Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Ry. Ten years later he started his utility career by building the Fort Worth-Dallas interurban line, first in Texas. He has an interest in many utility companies now and one of his most important positions is the presidency of Frontier Corp., the dupont-Aluminum Co. power project in the St. Lawrence...
...Gleaming new electric interurban cars at Baku (in Asia) entering an enormous new railway station in Eurasian style (see map sketch). . . . Prosperity in the place where Red oil comes from. . . . Stalin's mother at Tiflis (TIME, Dec. 8). . . . Chiaturi, which produces the manganese used in one U. S. auto out of every...
...more eastbound. All will have the same equipment and extra fare as the old 20-hour trains. Detroit-Pontiac. The Grand Trunk Railway last week announced plans to electrify its lines between Detroit and Pontiac. A four-track, 40-minute suburban system will be provided-and over the hurrying interurban trains will be a four-lane motor speedway to permit hurrying autoists to cross some 25 miles of country in almost no time...
...relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...