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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transition of U. S. railroaders from private business men, not seldom of piratical bent, into public servants, was begun in 1887 with the founding of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroaders had collected the money, begged or bought the land, built and consolidated the lines. The Commission was established to prevent the railroaders: 1) from charging the public exorbitant rates, to the detriment of the public pocket; 2) from cutting each others' business throats, to the detriment of commerce; 3) from mishandling their finances, to the detriment of public transportation and of general business security...
Amazed Italians wondered. How came this Amir of a fabled realm to be so nonchalant, so easily and intelligently apprehensive of both modernity and Eternal Rome? Is not Afghanistan the exotic and backward land of castor oil beans, asafoetida plants, and "fat-tailed sheep"?* Is it possible that a country without railways, a people whose chief exports are the wool and skins of "fat-tailed sheep" can have achieved sophistication...
...Because of Cincinnati's famous art collections and its interest in music, it is already in the forefront of American cities as a cultural oasis in an arid land." This was an opinion offered by famed Art-critic (of the New York Times) Royal Cortissoz, as quoted, under the headline "Oasis," in the Cincinnati Enquirer, last week...
Several years ago, Dr. Abbot led an expedition 30,000 miles to find the best place in the world from which to observe the sun. Finally, he picked the peak of Mount Brukkaros in the land of the Hottentots,* 200 miles from Windhoek, capital of Southwest Africa. There, scientists with delicate instruments will go to catch sunbeams that have never been caught before...
...village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing in a shell. It is easy to believe the legends of Hardy which picture him as he grew up writing love letters for illiterate or ineloquent country ladies; sitting...