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...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...
...serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last year handled 50,260 cars selling at $990 up (compared with...
...Sherman Range, Wyo., 8,835 ft. up, it warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across the plains. From Independence, Mo., to Fanny's Bottom, Ore., the Guide points out characteristic scenes of staggering pioneer enterprise, as well as scenes...
Employes of the Union Pacific Railway have been rather gently admonished that it will be much the best for them to allow their facial hay to grow in preparation for those two gala days. . . . Some men with beards growing have become very well pleased with the effect and several have vowed to keep their beards after the world premiere is over...
...self-effacing tycoon who sprang this surprise was Walter Patton Murphy, a 66-year-old bachelor. A onetime railroad brakeman and fireman who became rich by inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look...