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...abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth...
...desire to take time out on this subject with just one parson, however dry. But Gov. Smith has waited for a chance to get at and dispose of this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague way, he was to be the symbol of sexual infidelity, of degrading pleasures which the virtuous woman feared more than beer. He was to be thoroughly confused with...
...this apparently innocent extension, magnates saw pregnant and disquieting possibilities. At Connellsville, the P. and W. Va. branch will connect with the Western Maryland road, forming what may develop into a new through route from Lake Erie and the steel producing country to Baltimore, via the Wheeling and Lake Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line...
...season, but during his brief period of activity has performed very creditably. Travelling the full route against Maine, he fanned-five and allowed only seven scattered hits. In the last two innings of the Trinity game, Howard struck out four, while none of the opposing batters was able to connect with his offerings...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...