Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire destroyed the Central Post Office in Rome, causing damage to the extent of more than 5,000,000 lire. Communications with northern Italy, France and England were interrupted for many hours. Five hundred telegraph instruments were destroyed, but there were no casualties...
France is suffering from an acute shortage of labor due partly to war losses, partly to the large army she is keeping, partly to the vast reconstruction work in Northern France...
Walker D. Hines, Director General of the Railroads during the last months of the period of Government operation, and now Eastern general counsel of the Great Northern, has joined Hale Holden, president of the C. B. & Q. in advocating railroad mergers as a cure for the railroad problem in the United States. Holden's plan, supported by Hines and other big railroad executives, contemplates a rail consolidation that would tie up every road west of the Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching...
...this second migration should develop, it will constitute a serious addition to the shortage of labor in the South. Northern industry has already drained the South of unskilled labor, to the point where the lack is being gravely felt...
CALIFORNIA: A new crater broke out on the east slope of Mount Lassen, which is in violent eruption. Mount Lassen, in the extreme northern part of California, is the only active volcano in any of the states. It became active...