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...railroad problem during Depression and thus far in Recovery has been to coax enough net operating income out of greatly diminished gross receipts to cover almost inflexible fixed charges on a funded debt which in December 1934 stood at $10,560,000,000. In 1929 the railroads had gross receipts of some $7,000,000,000. That income has shrunk by nearly $3,000,000,000. If the roads were spending as much money on operations as they spent in 1929, receiverships would now be almost universal. They have, however, made extraordinary reductions in operating expenses. In 1934 maintenance charges...
This was to be accomplished by the simple expedient of putting the Reserve Bank chairmanships on a "purely honorary basis." Net result in the first week was the laconic announcement that services of six of the ten present chairmen (there are two vacancies) would be "terminated" at the end of April. Presumably they found an "honorary basis" somewhat hollow. Two other chairmen- Atlanta's H. Warner Martin and Cleveland's E. S. Burke Jr. - apparently accepted the "honor." Another two were lucky...
Greatest Weakness at Net...
...line, and third defense pair would have placed well on most any other team we played." But in spite of its losses, the Crimson squad will begin the coming season with as good material as any of the other league members. Stubbs' toughest problem is to find a good net-tender, and the outcome of the season may depend on his success here. The solution of this and other problems we now leave to those to whom it belongs, the 1937 squad, Joe Stubbs, and the hands of Fate...
...Rome was no longer too hot to hold him Caesar soon established himself there as one of the shrewdest schemers of a conspiratorial day. He fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus...