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...reoccupied by nervous Ethiopians. Italian headquarters still insisted that they were using Gorrahei's airport, a field some distance from the town. ¶ Mystery man of the week was H. H. Mohammed Yayou, Sultan of Aussa, a plains district between the Danakil Desert and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway. Certain it was that he was fighting. There was some confusion about which side he was fighting for. Weeks ago he was supposed to have been bought by Italian gold. Few days later his men gave the first important reverses to the Italian forces in the desert region south...
...Wash, and a barber in Texas. The Drake Estate was a matter of social interest in their communities. It was talked of at picnics, church socials, bridge parties. People were convinced it was the way to wealth. . . . They got these people to pool their money and ship it by railway express to Chicago...
...mile a minute" is the proud description of King Vittorio Emanuele's train by its stiff-necked, arrogantly bourgeois builder, Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli, Senator of the Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train in an emergency...
...obsolescence is a matter of fact when the purchaser has money, it is a matter of opinion when he has not. The railroads were expected to lose more money in 1935 than they had lost in 1934. They still had an excess supply of locomotives and freight cars, and Railway Age estimated a 1935 production of only 100 locomotives. To this traders retorted that rail equipment stocks were still underpriced, that even a small equipment expenditure by a railroad would be big income for an equipment company. No other group of securities offered such an extraordinary gap between depression lows...
Soviet Russia does not coddle very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they...