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...readjustment from Government to private operation. To accomplish this purpose it was provided that the guaranteed compensation paid for the use of the railroads during Federal Control should be continued for a period of six months after March 1, 1920, it being assumed that within that period a normal relationship between expenses and revenues could be restored. A fund was also provided from which, during a period of two years, loans might be made to railroads whose credit would not permit borrowing in the open market...
...Offer Prizes for the Best Cough and the Loudest Handkerchief Operations. The main reading room and Lower Widener are practically the best sort of proving grounds for those coughs which are above normal strength. In those rooms, everyone else tries to be quiet. That is the psychological moment to test out a rippling, rolling, resounding cough or a crackling, recalcitrant nose...
...sort of electric person. "He is," as Lawrence would put it, "so terrificially present to her" (my quotes). His characters bite and scratch; themselves and one another. They cling and they smash. It is on the whole, a quivering scene. The men and women in it appear perfectly normal on the outside, perfectly British (or Chinese). But shortly the current is turned on and what happens is the story of "Tickets Please", where a man is almost torn to pieces by six girls with whom he has firted...
...reaction, and so this year there will undoubtedly be a reaction from the Republican's overwhelming victory of two years ago. The particular interest in this election is what that reaction will show as forecasting the Presidential election of two years hence. Will the reaction be a normal reaction such as always comes after a sweeping victory? Will it be a return to a normal Republican majority in Congress, such as existed before the Wilson victory of 1912, or will it go so far beyond that as to indicate a coming turn to democracy? A turn in the Presidency...
...mail is proving an incalculable asset to the government. For the past two months every part of the entire route from New York to San Francisco has been covered every day, regardless of weather conditions. This represents 100 percent efficiency for that period, the normal efficiency rate through two years being at least 96 percent. There has been no fatality in the past year...