Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime U.S. citizens in the stands, and there were many, had been straining their eyes for the silks of Billy Barton, the only U.S.-bred horse in the race. For a time he had raced well. Then, at the nineteenth jump−a rail obstacle, a difficult hedge and a ditch−he faltered and fell. Tommy Cullinan, thrown, jumped up and remounted. But Billy Barton was through. He fell again and with this fall went a small fortune, including a single...
...find no sleeping adversary. He is 50, a bronzed six-footer. He was born a farmer's son near Hoosick Falls, N. Y., earned $11 with his own cabbage patch while still very young and struck out for the West with that $11 as his capital. He learned rail road construction in the Colorado camps...
...roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...
Although no official statement on the subject of President Lowell's address could be obtained, it is expected that he will make his first personal reply to charges of E. H. Bill that the House Plan was "rail-roaded" through the faculty, and also will discuss other aspects of the House Plan, on which he has as yet made no statement...
...contract for the Caloric engine, a type of which was used in the Monitor states among other things that at first a Philadelphia man and his associates desired to "ascertain whether Ericson's Caloric Engine might be employed for the purpose of propelling city rail-road cars." This part of the contract however did not materialize for only Ericson's signature is appended...