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...from this fast-publicized action, many another commuter tried the same procedure. Some succeeded; some were thrown off. At ticket offices all along the line irate commuters insisted on getting receipts for their money, talked darkly of demanding rebates later. On the third day of the revolt the Transit Commission got a temporary injunction restraining the Long Island from charging more than 2? a mile within the City of New York. Basis of the injunction was the State Railroad Law, which prohibits a road from charging more per mile than its parent company in cities of 1,000,000 population...
...Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...started out as a Northwest farmer and lumberjack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink of the paving. Three...
...stylish, but tired at the finish after a hard run over rain-drenched ground. His brace mate disgraced herself by chasing off after a covey of deer. Next good heat of the stake was run by Sulu, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by Andrew G. C. Sage, whose Rapid Transit, champion in 1933, had run disappointingly the first day. Last year, Sulu had the honor of working in the runoffs as brace mate to Homewood Flirtatious the day Homewood Flirtatious won the Trials. Last week Sulu found six coveys and worked with dainty accuracy on single birds. That afternoon Homewood...
Whopping bond issues already filed or under consideration include $60,000,000 for Shell Union Oil; $65,000,000 for National Dairy Products; $90,000,000 for Pacific Gas & Electric; $70,000,000 for Virginian Railway; $92,000,000 for Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...