Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debates which the Council hopes to schedule are besides Yale and Princeton, Boston College, Melbourne, Vassar, and the Norfolk Prison Colony...
Last week Woburn, Mass.'s Lawyer Daniel Joseph Doherty, who was a pay clerk in the Norfolk Navy Yard when he got his discharge from the U. S. Navy in 1919 and who so far has held no more important political job than assistant district attorney of Middlesex County was elected on the first ballot. The new job makes Lawyer Doherty a gubernatorial possibility for Massachusetts...
...Joseph P. 19 152 5.10 Andover Wilton, Conn. O'Conor, Andrew J. 18 159 6.2 Ottawa High Ottawa, Ill. Oliver, Bradley C. 18 142 5.9 St. Mark's Pittsburg, Pa. Thomas, Edward C. P. 18 155 5.9 Belmont Hill Cambridge TACKLES Curtis, Charles P. III 18 185 6. Andover Norfolk Eliot, Thomas L. 17 190 6. No. Shore C. D. Winnetka, Ill. Elser, Peter F. D. 17 195 6.1 Kent New York City Healy, William P. Jr. 18 185 6.1 Roxbury Latin Boston Hinckley, Frank L. Jr. 18 185 6.4 St. George's Providence, R.I. Homans, William...
Average length of all U. S. freight trains is 47 cars. But trains longer than 70 cars are the rule in large homogeneous shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that...
...hour after leaving Baltimore on an overnight run to Norfolk, the 297-ft. steamship City of Baltimore was rounding the mouth of the Patapsco River when fishermen in the bay nearby saw what they thought was a great ball of fire ascending from the deck. Fire had broken out in the hold or engine room. Police boats, Coast Guard craft and private speedboats swarmed to the rescue while the City of Baltimore burned almost to the waterline. Although the scene was reminiscent of the Morro Castle, the casualty list was small -three dead, two missing at week...