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...Tornado v. Train" (TIME, June 8) you say that "in the string of eleven Pullmans there were 119 passengers," etc. The inference is that the one man killed was a Pullman passenger. Such is not the fact. The unfortunate traveler rode in a day coach. Fear-stricken, he jumped through a window; the car a moment later was blown over on him. The Pullman Co. is proud of the fact that last year (1930) we carried 30.800,000 passengers 12,814,000,000 passenger miles (1,183,669,000 vehicle miles) and only one of these passengers was killed...
...jury could not agree, were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows: Bankus Corp. and City Financial Corp., subsidiaries of the Bank of U. S., had a book value of $4,800,000 worth of real estate equities...
...this year, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 less than its $360,000,000 next year. Economies had been effected by decommissioning older naval craft, holding the enlisted personnel 4.700 below the authorized maximum of 84,000. As of no further strategic value. Guam was stricken from the Navy's list of Pacific bases, plans prepared to demilitarize...
...lives on a large farm near Stephens, Ark. Brother Fred's conviction filled his mother with shame and anguish. Last week Brother Lawrence declared that he had "no apologies to offer" for Brother Fred's pardon, that he had issued it largely because of his "grief-stricken mother." Two days later he went to a raspberry festival at Wynne where he told merrymakers: "You people of Cross County are all my friends and don't hesitate to call on me for help. Remember, I can still grant pardons...
...health. He could not stand four years in the White House, said his opponents. In the summer of 1921 Mr. Roosevelt was at his camp in New Brunswick, Canada. After a hard cross-country tramp, he went swimming in the icy Bay of Fundy. Exhausted, he, aged 39, was stricken with infantile paralysis. In 72 hr. his body was dead from the waist down. His physician told him he would never walk again. But he began to try, first on crutches. At Warm Springs, Ga. he found mineralized water that seemed to help his shriveled legs...