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...strange thing about the young U. S. airline business is that one of its great potential fields of development is controlled by its elderly competitor, the railroads. Air express, by contract with the air lines, is a monopoly of Railway Express Agency. And Railway Express Agency is owned lock, stock & barrel by 70 railroads, which have lost some 10% of their Pullman passenger business to transport planes. With all the passenger and mail business they can conveniently handle, U. S. air lines have paid little attention to express, are glad to pay Railway Express Agency a commission...
...pride," he opened a campaign against rumormongering. It had been verified that "They say . . ." stories had caused the evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick up a newspaper and revealed to horrified passengers a man's hairy forearm. With "wide powers" to stop rumormongering, police went to work. A news vendor in Portsmouth was sentenced to three months for shouting "Germans bomb London...
...Germans when a Dutch commander withheld his surrender a few minutes beyond the ultimatum hour, smashed a square mile of commercial Rotterdam-according to the story in seven-and-a-half minutes. The Stadhuis (Town Hall), the new Beurs (Stock Exchange), the Post Office, the biggest department store, two railway stations, the whole length of the Coolsingel (Rotterdam's main business street) were destroyed by 2,200-lb. delayed-action bombs. Along the River Maas, the entire harbor was wrecked, the ancient quarter of Boompjes annihilated. The Nieuwe Waterweg, along which Rotterdam's ships pass to the North...
...railway junction, 40 miles south of Cambrai, Henry found a place in an auto mobile bound for Paris. Thin, tall Scots man Philip waited for a train, caught one four hours later. A few miles down the line the train halted while customs officers examined his credentials. Cried one, noting Timesman Philip's strange uniform, his blue eyes and sandy hair: "You're a dirty German parachutist!" A crowd collected, screaming imprecations. Ordered to undress, Percy Philip stripped to his under wear while soldiers inspected the soles of his boots, felt the lining of his tunic. Then...
...arrived and put him under arrest. Through lines of indignant peasants, spitting insults at "the Boche assassin," the gendarmes marched him to the police station. There his credentials were examined again, found in order. Two young lieutenants took pity on the Times'?, Philip, escorted him back to the railway, and turned him over to the stationmaster's wife. She took him up to her kitchen while he waited for another train, made him an omelet, gave him wine and coffee. Two hours later Percy Philip was on his way to Paris, safe in a compartment...