Word: r
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midget road for a test case, the O'Fallon carries coal over a nine-mile track in Southern Illinois. It is owned largely by the Adolphus Busch estate which also owns the Manufacturers' R. R., a 20-mile system in Missouri physically unconnected with the O'Fallon...
...Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that it and the Manufacturers' R. R. were one, and should be so valued. The O'Fallon's excess profits on this basis would have been equalized by the Manufacturers' lack of profits. The lower court sustained the Commission, ducked the question of valuation by claiming that regardless of what method the commission...
AIRDROME RAIDED-FOURTEEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED COLUMBUS R. R. YARD WRECKED CINCINNATI WIPED OUT RAID REPULSED-FOUR BOMBERS DOWN-CREWS KILLED-OUR LOSSES SLIGHT...
Born. To Henry R. Luce, Editor of TIME, and Mrs Luce; a son, 7 lb.; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Paul Luce. Henry Luce...
...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...