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...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...took eleven years to complete the 865-mile railway which more than tripled Iran's previously existing lines. Heading north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot...
...which fits over the locomotive boiler's end separating the water chamber from the fire box, had given way. The water drenched the fires and steamed, scalding, into the cab. The ultimate dissipation of the locomotive's steam pressure had set the air brakes, averting calamity. In railway air brake systems, air compressed by a head of steam keeps the brakes off the wheels. When the steam head is released, the air valve opens, letting the air escape and clamping on the brakes...
...relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...against 1,356,598 year ago; in slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many a paper...