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...holding company makes a better target for the Utility Act than Electric Bond & Share. Through five large intermediate holding companies it controls operating companies which supply electricity and natural gas to 4,800 U. S. and 900 foreign communities. It is up to its ears in the business of managing, financing, otherwise serving its subsidiaries. In 1928 almost half its income came from service fees, and, though the proportion has dwindled since Depression, the shrinkage came through no will of the parent company. There is nothing shaky about Bond & Share. It owes no money...
This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though...
Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
...Editor Powell's consignment to the Scripps-Howard doghouse seemed to be that his latest fight, with some local politicians, had become so personal that it canceled his value to his paper. He had lately made some extraordinary allegations of corruption among the Marion County Democracy. Chief target was a criminal court judge named Frank P. Baker, who was once indicted (but never tried) for election fraud...
...should like to very much." said the Hatter. "But, you know, the arrow will never get to the target...