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...State laws, such as those limiting train length and increasing train crews will cost $12,000,000. 4) A 5?-an-hour pay raise granted Aug. 1 to 750,000 non-train railroad workers (clerks, signalmen, etc.) will cost $100,000,000. The five big brotherhoods of railway trainmen for a month have threatened to strike unless given a 20% raise. This would add $116,000,000 a year and the roads have refused point-blank to grant the full amount on the grounds that these workers are already very well paid.† A raise similar to that given...
...these increases went into effect, they would cost the roads $639,000,000, or 95% of last year's net operating income. One-third of U. S. railroads are already bankrupt and others hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges alone. Said Railway Age: "Unless the series of developments now rapidly tending to bankrupt virtually the entire railway system of the U. S. is immediately arrested, the American people may suddenly awaken to a realization that government ownership and operation of railways have become almost or actually unavoidable...
...Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully...
...Railway Express does the job in one motion saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...
When the last trunk has been delivered, the Railway Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of students laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for students who wish to have efficient laundry service to their homes and back to college dormitories at a very small cost. These shipments may be sent either collect or prepaid...