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Over in Manchukuo the same foreign oil firms are being squeezed, if possible, even harder. The Japanese Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief...
...cans of Standard Oil, Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...
Early this year the Medical Society of New York County suspended Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee because the doctors believed that this famed bone surgeon had unethically helped the Seaboard Air Line Railway to publicize his big new sanatorium at Venice, Fla. (TIME, May 21). Dr. Albee denied the charge, claimed that the county society had no real evidence against him, brought suit in a civil court for reinstatement...
...story of John and Maggie Shand. Nor can the picture's charm be ascribed to Scottish atmosphere, scrupulously maintained, from the unavoidable scene in which Maggie and John sing "Loch Lomond'' in the parlor to the MGM gesture of reproducing in every detail a real Scottish railway train for one brief sequence. Behind such externals lies the warm, human sympathy of an author whose works should eventually prove as popular in Hollywood as those of Charles Dickens are at present. Good shot: Dudley Digges, as Maggie's fumbling, devoted brother, expressing consternation when he hears that...
...this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger & better Association of American Railroads, announced that 80% of its members had voted to equip their old freight rolling stock with new Westinghouse brakes already required by the Association on new equipment. Binding on all members...