Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly elected grand chief engineer is Alvanley ("Al") Johnston, 52, Canadian-born, quiet-mannered, efficient. For 32 years he was an engineer on the Great Northern, now carries a free pass on that road as a "Veteran Engineer...
Husbandmen of northern New York State await, with an interest more vicarious than immediate, the results of an expensive experiment reported last week at the farms of Donald Woodward, gentleman farmer of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
Although I. C. C. Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman approved the B. & O. stock issue, he struck at railroads clinging to their private bankers, as the B. & O., the St. Paul, the Union Pacific, or the Illinois Central to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Sante Fe, Great Northern to J. P. Morgan & Co. Said Commissioner Eastman: "I question seriously, whether there is any sufficient reason why a railroad like the Baltimore & Ohio should give any group of bankers a monopoly of its financing...
...Monrovia, Liberian capital, it became known last week that Mr. Francis had been for 19 years employed as a legal assistant for the Northern Pacific railroad. In 1924 he was chairman of the Colored Division of the Republican National Committee. "Ah," thought many Liberians, "Minister Francis has deserved honorably and well of President Coolidge...
...revisiting the scene of his engineering apprenticeship. So in his annual address to the Society he permitted himself to touch upon part of the "routine business" of his own career. This part was not his feat of discovering Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains for the Great Northern R. R., or any part of his pioneer work for the Canadian Pacific R. R., or any of his experiences as chief of the War-time board to improve trans-Siberian travel. His talk was about the Panama Canal, of which President Taft named him the "father" for his. services...