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...Interstate Commerce Commission for consolidation of the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad. These two roads already own 97% of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (the Burlington).† So it is probable that the Commission will also, later, consider this line officially joining the others. Thus the longest railroad system in North America will evolve -longer than the Canadian' Pacific (20,000 miles), the New York Central (14,537 miles), the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) and the Pennsylvania (11,698 miles). It will include 28,300 miles; will represent a capital investment...
...team seems to be quite weak in the weight events. C. A. Pratt '28 and David Guarnaccia '29 have shown the best results in the shot put, but W. P. Locke '27 usually is at his best toward the end of the season. The longest throw so far has been 42 feet. The hammer-throwing department is the weakest of any. It suffered by the graduation of the University's three leading throwers, P. E. Berglund '26, C. H. Bradford '26, and Edmund Burke...
...roads. The trackage of all the U. S. railroads (250,000 miles) is only one-fourth of all this. And yet the motor mileage does not include the 1,590-mile service that the Mid-West Motors Corp. expects to open next month between Dallas and Los Angeles, the longest continuous bus route operated by one company...
...white-haired earl sat down at his desk last week and wrote finis to one of the longest and most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed...
...SPLENDOUR-Thomas Burke-Doran ($2.50). London's slum man on his longest flight...