Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built to supply a utility construction project, it had outlived its usefulness and the area was well served by big buses and good roads. The Norfolk & Western sloughed off 54 mi. of trackage between Lenore, W. Va. and Wayne. Operating in a mountainous region and serving only a few farmers who sold their produce in local markets, the line was threatened by a new highway...
...railroads also continued to build. Their new line construction in 1933 totaled 24.24 mi., smallest since the first steam road was built 102 years ago. Of this total 11 mi. were built by the Virginian as the last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every...
...following article is the last of the Crimson's series on the Norfolk situation...
...will begin by saying that I regard the Norfolk prison as an admirable prospect. It is the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts, and should not be allowed to fail by reason either or critical comment on the part of interested or uninformed people, or, in order to meet the conveniences of the situation, by making unwise use of its facilities and by unwise use I mean mixing unfit men with the trustworthy men who are found there, in a way that would bring about disorders and apparent failure of the system...
...January 27, 1934, Auditor Hurley announced that Mr. Gill had "doctored" four inmates' records at Norfolk. On January 29, in spite of Mr. Gill's report (published with permission of the Commissioner of Correction) that the records corrected were not official, Mr. Gill was "withdrawn" as Superintendent. Twelve hours before Mr. Gill returned to Boston from Connesticut, it was announced in every metropolitan paper that he had been "ousted." These reports were rumored to have been spread by Mr. Gill's enemies...