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There is yet another brother, Otho C., whom I sent to California on my auto work and who there connected with capital to build gasoline engines. He followed them with rock drills, presses giving unheard-of high powers, improved wood distilling and now an underframe for railway cars that is revolutionary. I still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation only to see them adopt "traveling houses" finished and upholstered better than their homes and furniture...
...Down to the railway station next clay to see Mrs. Lewis off on the Etoile du Nord went practically every foreign correspondent in Berlin. There they filled her arms with great sheaves of American Beauty roses...
...still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed...
...official break, as a matter of fact, had occurred, but Soviet Russia was thoroughly "mad" at Japan and her puppet. Manchukuo police and soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to the Soviet frontier at Manchuli where he changed trains for Moscow. In Tokyo these arrests were strongly protested last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev in a note which held Japan responsible for the acts of her puppet and concluded ominously: "The Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics expects that...
Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, General Electric's Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon felt something like a slap in the face last week when one of Europe's biggest industrialists quietly dubbed railway electrification obsolete. Arriving in Manhattan for a week's visit, Managing Director Sir Henri W. A. Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell said: "Electrification, except in a suburban way, is a thing of the past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel...