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...Cairo, under strongest British pressure accompanied by a $100,000 British loan, the Egyptian Cabinet appropriated $470,000 for rush work on a strategic railway designed to improve defense against a possible invasion of Egypt by Italian forces from Libya. Bloodshed of this sort was being taken for granted in British garrisons throughout Egypt and the Sudan. As if acting in great emergency and unable to wait a few days for a regular British transport, the War Office took over from Cunard the small liner Scythia to be filled with troops in England and rushed to Egypt...
Delivery:-F. O. B. Railway. Sanchiatien. A small extra charge, on a mileage basis, will be made for lots escorted to destination by Italian Marines...
Announced Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives: "Not a single passenger was killed in an accident on a train during 1935. . . . This is the first time the railroads have achieved a perfect record...
...railway stations of every German city last week blonde housemaids blubbered and in many cases their erstwhile Jewish mistresses were on the platforms weeping, too. Back to the farm went many of the 30,000 departing Gretchens, while others with nowhere to go sought charity shelter. Reason: there had just come into effect the Government's decree providing that no German woman aged less than 35 shall work in an establishment containing male Jews (TIME, Sept...
...record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...