Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce we here set in motion." Next day an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the application of Gilbert Gable's Gold Coast Railroad for a permit to build a 90-mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland on the Southern Pacific line 50 miles inland. Soon the Gold Coast R. R., life line of Gilbert Gable's empire since it would be the means of getting ore and timber to the sea or back East by rail, was granted an ICC certificate of convenience and necessity...
...population and Gilbert Gable has become mayor. But no construction of the railroad has been started. Tired of waiting, local tycoons got behind a rival scheme. Five months ago, before an ICC examiner, this new group declared that it had funds to build a $7,000,000 line from Grants Pass, 15 miles south of Leland on the Southern Pacific, across the coastal range to Crescent City, 97 miles south of Port Orford on the California coast just below the Oregon line,* asked for a certificate of convenience and necessity. Against an imposing array of witnesses for the rival line...
...Grants Pass-Crescent City line was started 25 years ago, abandoned after 18 miles of line were built...
Month and a half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
Monsignor Michael Cline: "Life suffers more from monotony than from adventure. Risk is only censurable when it is too big for the one who undertakes it. ... The lady in question failed to draw the line between a legitimate risk and a foolhardy plunge. ... My opinion of the lady is that expressed by Wordsworth: All too good for human nature's daily food...