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...Lines cover 36,000 miles of road, over which also travel Greyhound motorcycle patrolmen, inspecting roads and checking up on bus driving. Last year 2,264 Greyhound busses (average cost: $8,000), carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance for each...
...fancy a doctor for a wife; he asked her to give up her studies so that she could accompany him on his travels. In Rome Mme Carlu began to paint, with the enthusiastic approval of her husband. But he would not let her go to art school, lest it affect her individuality...
...special votes on at least three items: sugar, cement, soft lumber. It was their last chance to vote these rates lower than they are in either the Senate or House Bill. Another section of the House- members from 13 beet sugar states- combined to protest any vote on sugar, lest, somehow, it be reduced below the possible maximum (3? per Ib.) set by the House Bill. A third section of the House - regular eastern Republicans - wanted the bill sent directly to conference without any voting which might alter their expensive handiwork. Among these contending forces, G. 0. P. leaders struggled...
Meanwhile Mr. Huston clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
Fascists were fearful lest a vital Italian War industry, motor-making, fall into foreign hands. A blast from Il Duce almost immediately shriveled the Ford-Isotta deal...