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...approach will be cleared at each end. All runways will have a flushing apparatus to clear away snow. Two miles away at Gander Lake, which is said to be ice-free all year, is a clearing for a seaplane base, with two channels almost wholly dredged. On the Newfoundland Railway stands a new station already labeled "Newfoundland Airport." Hotels, customs, hangars are soon to go up. Cost of the entire project...
...Total U. S. railroad trackage abandoned in 1936 was 1,523 mi., Railway Age reported last week. Abandoned mileage since 1932 totaled...
...lesser Indian potentate simply must ride out with elephants galore, one elephant has always seemed enough to the Nizam. (see cut below). Of late he has given careful thought to whether the World's Richest Man need ride an elephant at all. Suddenly last week the Hyderabad State Railway Shops received rush orders to spend not a penny more than $500 putting streamlined fenders on a Rolls-Royce which gives only eight miles to the gallon and so has been run but 300 miles by His Exalted Highness during its career of 26 years in Hyderabad. While putting...
...York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. went into court twice last week in the matter of losing railway mileage. In New Haven, Conn., trustees of New England's No. 1 railroad filed a petition in Federal court seeking authority to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 204.34 mi. of track in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator...
...gabbling, ill-trained slattern. He is sadder when one of his younger parishioners runs away. He is a little more cheerful when he goes after her and falls in love with her, but then he is much sadder than ever when she is killed in an off-stage railway wreck from which he escapes. Most reviewers were also made sad by Mr. Merivale's sadness, but there are hundreds of his enthusiastic followers who will be made happy just to see him back on the boards for the first time this sorry theatre season...