Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State capital, to White River Junction on the New Hampshire borderline. Cheered at way-stations, drowned in noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among the officials who made speeches and took bows was Sir Henry W. Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways, which put its assets at the Central Vermont's disposal to rebuild washed-out trestles, culverts, hill-shoulders...
...Chicle is sap from the sapote tree, found in Central America. Preparing to go thither last week were President Thomas H. Blodgett of the American Chicle Co. and Author Gregory Mason, to study the civilization of the Indians in unexplored territories of Guatemala, British Honduras and Mexico. Their guides and collaborators will be chicleros (gatherers of chicle...
Died. Ira Adelbert Place, 73, vice president and general counsel for the New York Central Railroad; in Manhattan...
White elephants are a symbol for useless beauty, for that which is at the same time precious and without value. In the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, last week, the Central Furniture Co. of Louisville inserted a full-page advertisement of a sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo...
Experiments with radio communication between moving trains and railroad signal towers had previously been made, but never before so successfully as last week on a mile-long New York Central freight train. In a tower at South Schenectady. N. Y., were Edward W. Rice Jr. and other General Electric officials; on the train were New York Central officials. They talked together, and clearly, as the train moved...