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...composed of company-owned baggage and public cars coupled with matching all-room sleepers built by Pullman Co. Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...
...carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable share of its surplus. Hope on this score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued. But at 80?, wheat was still 30? under last spring and it looked as though only a major crop loss from rust and bad weather or vast New Deal lending could prevent the price from going...
Albert E. Rust, Jr. -- Miss Martha Paul, Newton Highlands...
...Then he was president of Baltimore & Ohio, and after that of Rock Island. In 1907 Harriman picked him for Delaware & Hudson, which ran 870 miles "from nowhere to nowhere" (meaning from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to Montreal). He already was head of a "right of way and two streaks of rust"-Kansas City Southern, from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas. Before long they were both making good money. Then nothing more happened till Harriman died and the Interstate Commerce Commission began talking consolidation...
Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly as many social implications-the Dixie Cotton Chopper. Last week when several South American planters ordered cotton choppers, they could not be promised delivery sooner than next July, for Dixie Cultivator Corp. of Dallas was already working at capacity...