Word: bangor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many another corporation was also worried over a cut in fourth-quarter earnings from the steel and coal strikes. Some had been hard hit already. Of 47 railroads reporting so far, only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over 1948. Some were in the red (e.g., Pennsylvania's September loss of $2.7 million put it in the red for the first nine months, v. a $20.4 million profit in 1948), and a bad third quarter put all the rest down anywhere from 15% to 75% for the nine...
...optimism was probably no more than a holiday from the tension of the cold war. But like all holidays, it was welcome. The woods and fields from Bangor to Santa Barbara told of June bustin' out all over. Working at his White House desk...
...Cyrus Hamlin of Bangor, Me. took off for the Turkish province of Bulgaria. His instructions: "The people needs to be taught to read, hear and reflect." Few did more to teach Bulgarians to read and to reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed...
...England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...
...Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit of about $20,000 last month...