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...fine new job, with the same salary as that of his old one, awaited Mr. Biggs: RFChairman Jesse Jones had appointed him voting trustee of the stock of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway where the conflicting interests of Frank E. Taplin and the Van Sweringens required the interposition of a neutral party of distinguished legal attainments...
...Russia's last ruling Romanov had not overreached himself by building a railway clear across Manchuria and down to Port Arthur, thus provoking the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, he might conceivably be on his throne today. From the shame of their defeat by yellow men, Russia's Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin...
...under Stalin in 1935 has the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes...
That Japan is the real buyer sufficiently appeared when the Japanese South Manchuria Railway announced that it will operate the Chinese Eastern Railway henceforth as the "North Manchuria Railway," re-equipping it-with British rolling stock-to match the narrower "American gauge" of its own lines...
Last week Railway Express Agency, "brother-in-law of the railroads," slashed its rates between the two biggest cities on the Atlantic seaboard. Railway Express will now carry packages up to 5 lb. between New York and Philadelphia for a flat 25? instead of a maximum of 40?; will carry 100 lb. for 75? instead of $1.45; 500 lb. for $3.64 instead of $7.25-an average reduction of 50%. Reason: competition from trucks...