Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accommodate the U. S. Government. No rail president is more popular in Washington than B. & O.'s Daniel Willard. He first won the favor of President Harding in 1922 when he promptly settled on equitable terms the great shipmen's strike for his line while other carrier presidents were stubbornly bucking the union. White House rail patronage was shifted from the Pennsylvania to the B. & O. where it remains to this day for all presidential excursions westward. The B. & O. carried Herbert Hoover back and forth across the continent during his campaign, is today his favorite road...
...truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination. "Gee," he exclaims, "were his feet sore...
...hostile airplane squadron took off from a sea carrier ten miles off shore, and moved forward to ravage the U. S. coast, would the responsibility for bringing it down fall to the Navy's fleet or to the Army's Coast Artillery Corps? Long have the two services wrangled in stuffy professionalism over this point, each claiming the sole privilege of repulsing such an aerial invasion. Quietly, almost casually, the Army last week won a victory over the Navy when, after months of conferences between Army and Navy Boards and a joint Congressional Committee, General Charles Pelot Summerall...
...also reported that grape-juice makes a good "carrier" for straight alcohol...
...addition to its carrier service (in which it has a virtual monopoly) Pullman also engages in the manufacture and sale of passenger and freight cars. Last week it arranged to strengthen its dominant position in this field by absorbing Standard Steel Car Co. and its affiliated Osgood-Bradley Car Co. From this merger Pullman would diversify its production to include street railway cars, steel forgings, grey iron castings, as well as increase its railroad car production...