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...decks for utility modernization, and last week another major purchaser of producer goods-the railroads-seemed hellbent on a spending spree. Union Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...
...Cincinnati's subway is ever to be used, it must build a loop through the Basin from its present downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized...
Lillie did not fail him. Whether bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...From the AffonsoArinos school at Bello-Horizonte, some 300 miles across the steep slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira range from Rio de Janeiro, last week a boisterous troop of boys raced for the depot of the Central do Brazil railway. They clambered into the nine creaking wooden coaches and snuggled down for the ecstatic ride home for Christmas. Winding south, the train picked up more passengers including laborers on their way to São Paulo farms...
...with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according to the Mexican Railway, four or five dead, 30 injured...