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...animosity between the Blue & Grey made news in the East. In the South there has been reciprocal licensing trouble before. The Highway Users Conference, whose membership includes rubber, petroleum and motor interests as well as truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees...
Gulf & West Texas Railway, controlled by Southern Pacific, is linking San Angelo and San Antonio. Vital to the project is the Fredericksburg & Northern. Its owners asked $350,000 for the property. The Southern Pacific bid only $200,000, claiming that the line is so rundown that it will cost $733,000 to make its unballasted, steep right-of-way fit for through traffic. Last week the I. C. C. told F. & N. that unless it sells out for $200,000 S. P. will be granted permission to build parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only...
...voted the regular 25? payment. Next day in a radio salesmeeting over a national network Chairman Walter P. Chrysler told his 75,000 dealers and salesmen that the new Plymouth was base priced at $495, that price reductions averaged $60. Frisco Turnabout. The sprawling St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., which owns rail enough to double-span the distance between Berlin and Bagdad, averted a receivership action two months ago. Last week it performed a turnabout. Its management went to Federal Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of St. Louis, the judge who gave the Frisco "another chance" in the first...
Most marchers frankly admitted that on their way to London, local charity folk gave them more to eat than they have had in many months at home. Among the suburbs of the capital, schoolhouses, suburban railway stations and district lodging houses offered shelter for the night, but London itself was different. In London the hunger horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right...
...Loads. Seatrain Lines, Inc., which ferries loaded freight cars from New York to Havana and New Orleans, last week had a competitor by sea and a counterpart by land. The competitor was a car-ferry service by Florida East Coast Railway Co. The East Coast, long in receivership, has operated a ferry between Key West and Havana, was last week authorized to use its surplus equipment and extend the service to New Orleans, just as fortnight ago Seatrain Lines, Inc., was authorized to extend its route to New York (TIME...