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...Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...
...with even more eloquence, was thumping his bushy tail on the green committeeroom carpet. Seeing Eye dogs, declared Rex's master, were taught always to be friendly with everyone, unless commanded otherwise. Amiably Rex rose, stalked up to R. V. Fletcher, stuck out his paw. Grinning, the railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved his paws, swished his tail. Dr. Claus stopped talking, unleashed the dog. With a bound Rex leaped to Chairman Bulwinkle, licked his hand, his chin. Then...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...
...more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead...