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...would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...
...Felix Pawlowski, Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at the University of Michigan; and Brill Co. experts. President Conway, meeting competition by Pennsylvania R. R. and Reading Co., expects to beat their time of 36 min. from Norristown to the heart of Philadelphia. He is chairman of a committee of electric railway officials which is spending half a million dollars on research to make electric cars faster, more sightly...
...interurban car, claimed to be the fastest electric car ever built for commuter service and more modern in design than the most modern bus, made trial runs at Philadelphia last week. It was built by J. G. Brill Co. for Philadelphia & Western Railway and is the first of ten such cars which will run between Philadelphia's 69th Street station and Norristown at an average speed of 52½ m.p.h., including stops. It seats 52 passengers, costs...
Perfect Circle Co. reported nine-month earnings of $736,000 against $528,000. This company is the oldest and biggest maker of piston rings. Successive names of the company have been: Railway Cycle Manufacturing Co. (1891); Light Inspection Car Co. (1900); Teetor-Hartley Motor Co. (1914); Indiana Piston Ring Co. (1918-28). Its plants are in Hagerstown, Newcastle and Tipton, Ind., turn out 5,000,000 rings a month. Its directorate includes: C. N. Teetor, R. R. Teetor, Lothair Teetor, D. H. Teetor, H. C Teetor, Nellie Teetor, D. Teetor, M. O. Teetor, H. Teetor and J. Teetor...
...Setting morals aside, Japanese rule has proven more efficient than Chinese. Japanese troops along the Southern Manchurian Railway (long before the recent Japanese occupation of Manchuria) induced comparative peace. Result: 1,000,000 Chinese have been emigrating from chaotic central China to Manchuria each year, seeking the Pax Japana...