Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liverpool exchanges ranking next in size. It was originally (1925) planned as a cocoa and rubber exchange, but the rubber men did not come in and now have their own exchange. Outstanding furnishings on the rather sparsely equipped Exchange floor include a large battery of telephones and a brass-rail circle occupied by camp-chairs on which the traders perch. Compared to the Wall Street Exchange, there is a noticeable absence of fury, frenzy; the building has indeed a somewhat musty atmosphere...
Four Powers. Perhaps the general outline of the eastern railroad situation is most clearly seen through an analogy between the pre-war Balance of Power in Europe and the present Balance of Power between the rail systems east of the Mississippi...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...Mission to play Good Samaritan to God's frozen children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around...
...long sailed Capt. Fried. At nightfall his searchlights revealed the Florida dead ahead. A miracle had been accomplished by radio science. The Florida, listing sharply, with one rail under water, had been changing its position constantly because its engines were still slowly turning over. But Fried and his Kolster were in time...