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...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
...which he attends the most palatial estate which can possibly be hired, preferably a mansion some miles out of town like his own "Woodley" in Washington. Last week, having taken Mrs. Stimson to Europe on the svelte, palatial Ile de France, and brought her to Paris on a private railway car, he set her up three miles from Geneva as the Chatelaine of the Chateau de Bessinge...
...Aloysius Lyons, weary of paying New South Wales's repudiated debts (TIME, April 6, 1930, et seq.) continued its efforts to impound New South Wales funds. Mr. Lyons issued a proclamation attaching betting tax receipts at race courses, entertainment taxes at theatres, and the receipts of state-owned railways in New South Wales. State Premier Lang swiftly countered by ordering that all railway receipts must not be handled by banks, but sent direct to Sydney under armed guard. During the night his agents changed all the locks on all the doors of the state tax office to prevent Federal...
From the map of his 22,000-mile Pan American Airways, able young President Juan Terry Trippe struck the last remaining legend of railway route last week. About his entire system, which coils like a python around South America, slithers across the islands of the Caribbean and flicks all Central America with its tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles...
...many a successful manufacturing company, Perfect Circle had a hard time finding itself at first, which was towards the close of last century when Charles Teetor and a brother John began to make things in their Hagerstown barn. They made a hand car for railroads and in 1895 organized Railway Cycle Manufacturing Co. Later they began to make internal combustion engines and in 1914 the company became Teetor-Hartley Motor Co. Four years later they decided to specialize in piston rings and until 1928, when the present name was assumed, the company was Indiana Piston Ring...