Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revenue of approximately $10,000,000 per year. Their stout claim, supported by heavy advance sale of "limited" tickets, is that the traveling public gladly pays the extra fare in return for superior accommodations, extra speed. Some famed limited trains, their routes, their times, their extra fares: New York Central. 20th Century Limited (and three similar trains), New York & Chicago in 20 hr.-$9.60. Southwestern Limited, New York & St. Louis...
Pennsylvania. Broadway Limited (and two similar trains), New York & Chicago, 20 hr.-$9.60. The American, New York & St. Louis, 24 hr.-$4.60. Congressional Limited, New York & Washington 4⅔ hr. - $1. Southern. Crescent Limited, New York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard...
...From a radio loudspeaker came the voice of Scientist Albert Einstein speaking from Berlin. Inventor Edison acknowledged the unheard compliments. Other famed guests at the Dearborn celebration: Airplane Inventor Wright, Ambassador Dawes, Steelman Schwab, Oilman Rockefeller Jr., Tireman Firestone, Cineman Hays, Secretary of War Good. Railmen Crowley (New York Central). Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Loree (Delaware & Hudson), Willard (Baltimore & Ohio). Worldwide were the refractions of the Light Jubilee and Hero Edison's glory. In European and South American countries were held illumination displays, banquets, public lectures, exhibitions...
Although Herr Kreuger has raised many millions of dollars in foreign countries, none of his expansion program has been attended with any risk of loss of control. Class A shares of Kreuger & Toll, central Kreuger company, must be held by Swedes; Class B shares, permissible to foreigners, carry only one vote per thousand shares...
With colleagues representing the great central banks of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, brisk Mr. Reynolds was trying to whip into shape a charter for the new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23) which under the Young Plan will handle German Reparations payments, issue Reparations Bonds. The Chairman's attitude: "We will go on until we have finished. This is a woodcutting job. There is going to be nothing spectacular about it and very little news...