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Famed is New York Central's advertising slogan: The Water Level Route-You Can Sleep. The implication is that passengers on the Pennsylvania, New York Central's great rival, are kept awake as their trains chuff up and over the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and Chicago. The same implication, to a lesser degree, works against Baltimore & Ohio whose line roughly follows that of the Pennsylvania through the mountains. Last week B. & O. made a move to take itself out of the shadow of the New York Central's advertising...
...Kohler Co. would have had to shut down its steam pumping plant and the model village which Walter Jodok Kohler built for his workmen would have been left without a drop of water. But last week, in spite of the agreement, strike pickets halted the engine, forced it to chuff back to Sheboygan with its car of coal...
When shortly before midnight the Democratic special rumbled out of the Albany yards of the New York Central and started to chuff uphill toward Schenectady, Governor Roosevelt was abed in his own room on the private car Pioneer. In the car with him were his son James, just recovered from an attack of "nervous exhaustion," his daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall, a chef and two porters. In the three Pullmans ahead were Milton Maclntyre, the Governor's press repre sentative. Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the "brain trust" which supplies the Governor with economic data, advises him on speeches...
...first special trainload of Erie employes and families chuffed out of New York bound for the road's new headquarters in Cleveland (which will not, for the present at least, be located in the Van Sweringen's skyscraping Terminal Tower). All through August more special trains will chuff away with more Erie families, until by the end of the month the 1,000-odd inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved was in 1868 -a highly immoral escapade across...
TIME uses Webster's International, retaining editorial license. To the TIME ear it seems that a steam locomotive says "chuff" when it starts up, not "chug," the sound of antique motorcycles and fishermen's power boats.-ED. Sister of M. L. S. Sirs...