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Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...Last week, for borrowing $10,000 in 1930 from United's Vice President Paul Henderson, Chase C. Gove. Assistant Superintendent of the Post Office's Railway Mail Service, was suspended (pending investigation). At the time he was deputy to Warren Irving Glover, then Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail contracts...
...Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station Hitler's Youths amused themselves by dashing among the children and snatching the rest of their banners. Bishop Bares of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin and Brandenburg sent smoking protests to Chancellor Hitler, to Prussia's Premier Hermann Göring and to Minister...
...President of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company" Sequel to the above: To this day, 60 odd years later, Danville passengers must hire taxis and drive three miles to catch an L. & N. train for east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers frantically trying to board...
...bodies of the drowned were coming in with the morning tide, nudging the wharves. Blackened, blank-faced men groped over the steaming ruins. A sharp sleet was falling. Soon it turned to snow. The survivors huddled in barracks on the peaks, in a few schools still standing, in the railway station and the British and Russian consulates. Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made it: 1,500 dead, 2,000 injured, 23,000 buildings destroyed...