Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loads. Seatrain Lines, Inc., which ferries loaded freight cars from New York to Havana and New Orleans, last week had a competitor by sea and a counterpart by land. The competitor was a car-ferry service by Florida East Coast Railway Co. The East Coast, long in receivership, has operated a ferry between Key West and Havana, was last week authorized to use its surplus equipment and extend the service to New Orleans, just as fortnight ago Seatrain Lines, Inc., was authorized to extend its route to New York (TIME...
Seatrain's counterpart by land appeared last week when the Alton, now a unit of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was permitted to carry loaded trucks on flat cars between Chicago and East St. Louis. Trucks up to 20 tons are accepted, loaded and unloaded at the truck firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered...
...sidetrip from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. Back in Pittsburgh Governor Roosevelt planned to make his long awaited Bonus speech. His managers predicted he would declare against immediate cash payment but propose as an alternative a system of local relief for needy veterans to be administered by the counterpart of Wartime draft boards...
...difficult to see why this series, the modern counterpart of the great religious frescoes of the Renaissance, has caused such an upheaval in the Impressionist schools. The realm of art was as much disturbed by the trial of the fishmonger and the poor shoemaker as the political situation of the decade...
...principle of polarity", which he sees evidenced through the whole extent of the writer's work. Previous Meyer-Investigators, notably Brecht, d'Harcourt, and Faesi, have arrived rather by deductive means, at conclusions suggesting this, for example Faesi's statement that artistic creations may be either image or counterpart of their creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher...