Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education was complete. His father wanted him to study Law. He wanted to study Medicine. So he got a job as fireman on a locomotive. Five years and three-quarters he fired. Then he was made engineer and for 19 years and one-quarter he drove freight trains and passenger trains. Then, one day in 1903, the Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers died and he was elected to the post. He went to the headquarters of the organization at Cleveland. It was his first trip east of Chicago...
...Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...tons freight @ $6, average...
...freight...
With half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...