Word: cindered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pelley was irked beyond measure. It was not merely that U. S. railroads face their greatest crisis. It was not merely that the Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight gave the roads a 5.3% freight rate rise instead of the 15% the A.A.R. had requested (TIME, March 21). The cinder that really got in Mr. Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference last week he pointedly neglected to invite J. J. Pelley or any other working railroad man to attend. Puffing in their wrath like Hudson engines...
...fourth place winners L. A. Dimond '41 and D. H. Mitchell '41 were among the first group to start. Howell, having had cross country experience at Stowe School, England, had only the one minute and fifty second advantage over the scratch contingent. The course is entirely flat, following the cinder path skirting the Charles as far as the Watertown bridge, across, and back along the opposite side to the finish line lying directly across from the Dillon Field House...
...Cinder tracks, rock and rill beckon this afternoon as Varsity and Freshmen cross country candidates report to coaches and managers at 3:15 o'clock at the Dillon Field House. Coach Jaakko Mikkola will start what he hopes to be another successful cross country season with a short talk in the upstairs lounge...
Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...
...Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Republican National Committeewoman and dowager of Pennsylvania politics. Past West Middlesex' dozen stores and between its few blocks of houses they sped amid shouts of "Hurrah" and "Come...