Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...
...Chairman Storey spoke amiably last week about measures "for the protection of the express company." And he also said: "There is plenty of time between now and next February for the railroads to organize their own express business...
...Francisco he would go on board with his wife, look the crew over, shake hands with the passengers, eat dinner on board. There have been ceremonies like this in the past and after dinner there have been speeches in which Captain Dollar's officials have expressed the things the officials of any successful man usually express in his presence when there is some kind of an anniversary. But possibly, into that dinner on the President Polk, there will come, as there has in the past, a peculiar mood, and a peculiar accent in the speeches, that will make...
...only is the story the work of a Harvard man but the scene of the story is laid at Harvard before the war. Dos Passos has of recent years taken place in the first rank of American writers with his volumes "Manhattan Transfer" and "Orient Express" as well as his play "The Garbage Man," produced in the spring of 1925 by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the title of "The Moon is a Gong." He first won fame with his great war novel "Three Soldiers...