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Actual details of his Odyssey were completely blacked out by the amnesia. But a Railway Express Agency receipt for his large sea bag dated October 28, from Jacksonville, a registration slip from a Philadelphia lodging house on October 30, and a job application to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole marked what he thought were the limits north and south. Thus the Montreal resident who reported him there on October 29 was clearly mistaken...
...season-ticket-holders (British for commuters). On the 20 to 40 days each winter when visibility falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip in the thickest pea-souper...
...Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin. Across the 240-mile-wide neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...
...audience was outspoken Robert R. Young, there to receive an "Oscar of industry" for the 1945 report of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. As Young rose to accept the award, he also accepted Snyder's invitation. When his speech (and the banquet) ended some four minutes later, a red-faced Mr. Snyder got up at once and angrily walked...
...little Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railway Co. After 14 years in receivership, the C. A. & E. finally chuffed out last week. Debts refunded, fixed charges erased, it was all set to highball. The road had netted $51,974 in 1944, boosted that to $185,805 in 1945, counted on turning a $225,000 profit this year. With the money, it hoped to pay investors a dividend, start replacing the antiquated equipment with which it now serves 8,000 commuters from Chicago's western suburbs...