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...English mass dailies still offer cheap accident insurance to subscribers, but last fortnight cut their top figure from ?5,000 to ?2,500 for railway victims. Subscribers killed in motor accidents get from...
...French Foreign Office last week was reported to have quietly given in to persistent Japanese demands that the railway from French Indo-China into interior Yunnan Province be closed to war supplies for Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies. With only a trickle of traffic going over the long rail and motor route from British Burma, the Chinese are now almost wholly dependent on the Soviet Union for their foreign supplies. These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator...
...Please keep the rats for us. Our laboratory is situated near the big railway termini which will be among the first targets for raiding airplanes and we would like to be sure that some of the most important of our scientific materials are out of harm...
Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...
This week, apparently to push it along, Mr. Roosevelt conferred with the two rival commanders - Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association and President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads...