Word: depots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hurie looked out his office window. Clarksville, he thought, a quiet town . . . trees, lawns, Missouri Pacific depot, county court house . . . not like New York, very poor, every body . . . last spring's rains and floods, top soil washed away, cotton crop a failure, last year's cotton sold for only a few cents a pound. No money in Clarksville. I have $3,000 in the bank . . . savings of 15 years teaching . . . 1912, graduated Union Theological Seminary, preached in some New York churches. Perhaps, can raise the $115,000 there...
...science and information on such subjects, the engine was yesterday placed upon the road for the first time. All her parts had been previously highly finished and fitted together in Mr. Baldwin's factory. She was taken apart on Tuesday, and removed to the Company's depot, and yesterday morning she was completely together, ready for travel. After the regular [horse-drawn] passenger cars had arrived from Germantown in the afternoon, the tracks being clear, preparation was made for her starting. The placing fire in the furnace and raising steam occupied 20 minutes. The engine (with her tender...
When they descended from their trains in the grimy, shacklike Union Depot they found one W. H. French, pullman conductor of South Euclid, Ohio, singing to them a song he had composed. It went: "Welcome to you, welcome to you; Christian Endeavor, welcome to you!" The visitors were glad...
...Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...
This answer ends the Government's civil action against Mr. Doheny. His leases are canceled; he will not be repaid the $12,000,000 which he spent in building a naval oil depot at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Supreme Court went further. It said flatly that the whole transaction between Mr. Doheny and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was tainted with corruption. The jury, which found these two old men not guilty of criminal charges (TIME, Dec. 27), may well consider itself rebuked by the highest court in the land...