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Though Congress vacated the Capitol fortnight ago, its manifold committees, regular, special, select and joint, were left last week with plenty of summer work to do. The House and Senate had ordered a mass of investigations, probes, surveys, inquiries, studies, inquests and hearings, each of which meant toil and travel for one or more members at public expense...
Divided among the Big Four as connecting lines are Lehigh & New England (a "bridge route"), Montour, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Monongahela. Trackage rights here & there and joint terminal facilities complete the plan...
...Disillusion Must Result." Exuberant over the prospects at Ottawa seemed Britain's "Press lords," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, whose Hearstian papers have a joint circulation of 10,000,000 in the British Isles and who have plugged blatantly for years in favor of something called "Empire Free Trade." Serenely last week Sir Arthur Salter, British economist famed in the U. S. for his scholarly best seller Recovery?The Second Effort ($3), observed: "The misleading phrase 'Empire Free Trade' has caused much confusion in the English public mind...
Punctually at noon all Bat'a factory sirens began howling an eerie lament. Work ceased for the day. Again at 3 p. m. the sirens howled. In the factory yard a joint funeral service began for Thomas Bat'a and Pilot Heinrich Brouceck. Sixty thousand mourners, many of them peasants with black kerchiefs, marched past the catafalque hour after hour. In a husky voice that several times broke, Jan Bat'a read aloud Thomas Bat'a's will. It ignores his son Tommy as such, leaves all to the House...
Last week the Central and the Pennsylvania dropped their competition long enough to publish a curious joint advertisement about the coolness of their trains. Dining cars on the best trains will be air-conditioned. Into other cars, before leaving on hot days, will be pumped "a flood of fresh, precooled air" which will be "forced through all the aisles, around the seats, below the berths, into the compartments-penetrating to every nook and cranny of the car . . . affording full ventilation en route...