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Accomplishments of three locomotives warranted reporting last week, despite the popular impression that the last locomotive word had been said with the construction of the monster double-articulated Mallet engine which hauls mile-long coal trains over the Cumberland Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Locomotives | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Empire. Oldest railroad Empire (founded in 1827) is the Baltimore & Ohio, with Daniel Willard its Emperor and Baltimore its capital. The B. & O. runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Balance of Powers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution directing the Federal Water Power Commission to send to the Senate any protests against the lease of Cumberland Falls, Ky., to the public utility interests of Chicago's Samuel Insull; likewise protests against permitting Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West to participate as a member of the Commission in a consideration of this or other leases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senate Week | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...officio a member of the Federal Power Commission, it came to pass that Mr. Insull's lawyer, long a stockholder in the Middle West Utilities Co., sat last week upon that Federal tribunal to which that Insull company had to apply for a licence to exploit the Cumberland Falls on the Cumberland River in Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week asked the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABIINET: West Case | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Cumberland Falls had another ramification that interested the Senate. Although locally called "the Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABIINET: West Case | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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