Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate war loomed as anxious presidents noted that under the joint schedule of the Illinois Central and the Redwood Line, manufacturers could ship steel from Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...
...During this disaster the President mobilized every public and private agency under the direction of Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce* and Dwight Davis, the Secretary of War. Thanks to their joint efforts . . . everything possible was done...
...decorous novelty was the joint presentation of a U. S. husband & wife, Vice-Admiral & Mrs. Guy Hamilton Burrage, he commanding the U. S. European Squadron. Other U. S. males in attendance peered from a distance at courtesying wives, daughters...
...neither of these nobles does it seem "inexplicable" that a pretty woman should accept their joint escort; and to suggest that she was "imprudent" in so doing is clearly a dueling matter...
Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England...