Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thwarted thus far has been Leonor F. Loree's project of a fifth system in the same region (Wabash, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Western Maryland...
...competitors, be neutralized. But, "it is announced, moreover, that any new plan that may be worked out must provide for what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact and not as a theory. . . . They are counting on another conference at an early date. . . . Failure to confer further, it was pointed out, would be a suicidal policy from a railroad standpoint...
...belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state...
...Equivalent to 1/200 of the radiance of a fifth magnitude star (smallest size visible to the naked...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...