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Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...
Makers of tabulating machines refused to see why the Census Bureau should manufacture and repair its apparatus. Printers violently objected to the Post Office's merchandising stamped and printed return envelopes at the rate of 10,000,000 per day. Railway Express Agency wanted to put the parcel post system out of business because it operated for less than cost.* Architects contended that the Treasury was hogging the design of new public buildings. Brokers in farm products were bitterly resentful against the Farm Board's activities...
With almost regal pomp Chancellor Hitler next opened Berlin's automobile show. Disregarding the fact that the German State railroads are one of the Government's most important sources of revenue, Handsome Adolf promised Government assistance to the motor industry, postulated: "The railway is too impersonal in that it restricts individual freedom. Today the automobile and the airplane [invariably used by Herr Hitler in preference to trains] constitute the most perfect instruments of transportation...
...hurried toward the plant. Not one lived to reach it. Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...
...Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They might have been preparations for a riot, a great parade or a state funeral. A funeral in a sense it was. All night long gangs of coolies in ragged padded cotton clothing passed down that roadway dragging creaking carts and wheelbarrows piled high with boxes and packing cases. Three thousand separate cases...