Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every...
...Shadyville, Ohio, one William Baker was arrested for chicken-stealing. A dressed chicken, discovered in his cistern, was taken in evidence. To preserve it for a September grand jury, the fowl was sent to an undertaker, embalmed...
Grover Cleveland Alexander, 42, oldtime National League baseball pitcher, stalked last week to the pitcher's box in Baker Field, Philadelphia. It was the eighth inning of the second game of a double-header between Philadelphia and St. Louis. Philadelphia had won the first game. Philadelphia was leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded...
...planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...
...every name in Directors of the United States appears in Who's Who. Directors vary from smalltime politicians on the boards of backwoods construction companies to tycoons on billion dollar corporations. Unique among U. S. Directors is George Fisher Baker Jr. who is on four billion dollar corporations: General Motors, General Electric, U. S. Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas...