Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Erie's main line. Week prior the Southern's Crescent Limited had lurched off a water-logged bridge into a raging river while entering Washington over the Pennsylvania's tracks, had killed two, injured 13. Five days later the Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State Limited had met with an almost identical disaster on the Southern Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week's Erie smash...
...Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
...have taken the trouble to study the history of wheat as far back as the records go. We have followed this golden grain through thousands of years into antiquity, and out of this fascinating research has come this outstanding indisputable fact: wheat always has been the index to the price of all other commodities. The fat and lean years of every nation have always been dependent upon wheat...
...second to Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears...
...Florida land boom of 1926 he organized the "American-British improvement Corp.," planned to build a city called "Floranada" on 3,600 Florida acres. Collapse of the boom wiped out his own fortune and millions loaned by his family. "I discovered that a diamond-encrusted golden spoon can become an instrument of torture-when it stirs the bitter tea of failure...