Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...Pennsylvania's Congressman Francis Walter promptly began drafting a bill to provide what had always been assumed before: that Congress can run its business the way it pleases. Supreme Court decisions, groused Walter, echoing a former justice, are getting to be "like excursion tickets-good for one day only...
...million) than any other road in the U.S., yet it went bankrupt three months ago. Why? Thousands of commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan every day on its crowded, squalid, undependable trains have long thought that they had the answer to that question: they thought that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island, drove its subsidiary on the rocks by overcharging it for services rendered and underpaying it for services received...
...Republican New York State Legislature, said indignantly that the commuters were right. The Pennsy, the commission found, had milked the Long Island of upwards of $2,000,000 a year in intracompany deals. Some of the deals : ¶The Long Island, using its own tugs and barges, hauls Pennsylvania's freight across New York Harbor to Greenville, N.J., earning the Pennsy $1.10 in terminal credits for every ton of freight. For doing the work, the Long Island gets only 35? a ton. Thus, the Pennsy gets 75? for doing almost nothing. Said the commission: these revenues over the years...
...David E. Smucker, the chief operating officer of the road before it went broke and now one of the trustees. He had no comment. This week the Pennsy talked back, saying: "The commission has not . . . unearthed anything new or anything that has been kept secret by the Pennsylvania ... A complete misunderstanding of the facts." The road also noted that the New York Public Service Commission had once said there was "little basis" for the impression that the Pennsy had been draining the Long Island...