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...bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
Like their early annual drives to Changsha, the offensive aimed at Kweiyang appeared thus to have been defeated. But like their drives to Changsha, it had achieved part of its purpose: the Japs had destroyed the Kwangsi-Kweichow railway and seized its rolling stock along the line of their advance-to foreclose a heavily mounted Chinese counteroffensive...
...which the brothers already run their "few" busses and streetcars, they added another last week-Los Angeles. Through American City Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of National City Lines, Inc., top holding company in the Fitzgerald chain, the brothers bought the stock of the $50,000,000 Los Angeles Railway Corp. from the estate of Henry E. Huntington, one of the builders of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and collector of art, books and legends. A group of 14 investment banking firms bought the Railway Corp. bonds. Total purchase price: over...
...Elysian Field. The blissfully named Elysian Park Street Railway Co. was typical. Organized to sell lots in then suburban Elysian Park, the company had one horse-drawn car. Once the only driver said: "The owners furnished the horse and I the feed. My pay was $4 a week and all I took in ... about 10? a day. I had a banjo and was learning to play. I would start from one end of the line and busy myself with my banjo. The horse stopped whenever he found good grazing...
...nation's finest interurban system and fastest city lines. But Huntington, worried about the automobile, unloaded everything but the Los Angeles city system on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Los Angeles took to the auto as did few other cities. Huntington could not make his Los Angeles Railway pay. Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, as trustees for the Huntington estate, became operators of the system, held on until the war boom in traction companies brought...