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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What wooden cars it owned then, it has gradually been retiring. Last year 559 went into the discard. Last week went the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel Trains | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...I.C.C. occupied its time also by conducting a blame-fixing inquiry into the St. Paul crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: St. Paul's Conversion | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...capitalization was in bonds. All classes of security holders (except the U. S. Government which had loaned the road $55,000,000 and the owners of $182,130,960 especially safe-guarded bonds) lost. But they did not lose everything. Among the debris of the St. Paul's crash lay many a valuable share, which the re-organization managers, whom Jerome J. Hanauer's† gloved hand directed, fitted together a new pot for gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: St. Paul's Conversion | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...much more lonely are the wastes of the Pacific; jungles below the Equator; tropic waterways of the East over which he must fly if his portfolio of Ambassador of Good Will is permanent." Grumblers wondered if interest accruing to the national welfare by his flights is worth the calamitous crash of principal which would accompany his death. Col. Lindbergh is the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt. Thought they: "He is worth keeping." One way to keep him is to keep him on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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