Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...
...Known for 50 years as the Potato Road, Bangor & Aroostook suffered with Maine farmers, last year skipped its common payment for the first time since 1904. But this year booming shipyards and revitalized textile mills are filling some of the cars once loaded with potatoes. When February gross increased 9% to $558,000, net operating income...
...Just to remind the public that railroads were still railroads, Maine's potato-carrying Bangor & Aroostook fell from grace last week, passed its dividend for the first time since...