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Last group of all in the five-layered machine was the Bund organization, of which all patriotic Nipponese were members. Its influence was political. The Bunds were organized and financed by the South Manchuria Railway...
Before Prague's leading railway station there had stood since 1928 a statue of the scholarly Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, a gift of U.S. Czechs. Flowers were often strewn at its base by ardent Czechs in tribute to President Wilson's part in founding the CzechoSlovak Republic. Last week it was carted away by order of Adolf Hitler's blood-drenched chief executioner, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich of Bohemia-Moravia...
...lawyer for the Great Northern Railway paid Langer $25,000 for stock in some Mexican lands (which had already been expropriated), after Great Northern's taxes were cut $150,000 a year...
...Southern Railway last week paid off its last bank loan, thus joined the aristocracy of U.S. railroads whose members owe neither the banks...
Scrap and Iron Ore. From 1936 to 1940 she got from the U.S. 8,222,259 tons of scrap; none since Sept. 30, 1940. For iron ore she depended mostly on imports too. Japan is now confiscating manhole covers, gutter pipes, name plates, old railway cars to build her scrap stockpile...