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...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
That "rationalization" (sternly applied coordination) is a crying need in Russia. every Russian knows. Horrible-example-of-last-week was an official announcement in the Government organ Za Industri-alizatsia! ("For Industrialization!") that the "World's Largest Copper Plant" on the shores of Lake Balkhazh (2,000 mi. from Moscow in the howling depths of Asia) will have to be "indefinitely conserved" (abandoned...
...equipment Publisher Andersen began putting out the Times (evening). His backer is Charles Edward Marsh of Marsh & Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where he has an 11-month-old baby, and Mobile where he has a newborn newspaper...
...there was one fatality for every 19,346 passengers carried, against one in 17,396 in 1930, 3,314 in 1928. The air traveler need not expect to be killed before his 20,000th flight. On a passenger-mile basis he is reasonably certain of flying 4,600,000 mi. safely. It is still, statistically, 100 times as hazardous to fly on regular airways as to take a train but only four times as dangerous as riding in an automobile. Including one absent-minded person who stepped into a propeller, only 27 passengers were killed on U. S. airlines last...