Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through the control of communications in the American Revolution, the Southern party was victorious and the negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and color...
...domestic business, the railroads continue to occupy the limelight. Mergers abound, and still more are projected. When and if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the Nickel Plate consolidation now before it (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, Apr. 6, 27), many of these tentative and private rail merger plans will probably be rushed to completion...
...while other rail groups "claimed" the Virginian, the Pennsylvania went out and took it. This was done by the leasing of the Virginian to the Norfolk & Western, which is in turn controlled and largely owned by the Pennsylvania...
Ever and anon a case dustily tagged U. S. v. Jones & Co. is odorous of destiny. The Justices, sniffing the issue, settle deeper into their chairs, droop lower their traditionally half-closed eyelids, put more innocently their occasional question to distinguished counsel standing below the rail...
...preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element of the services of the University chapel is undoubtedly the music." Whatever be the bounds of this valley of dry bones, it ends with the rail of the choir left. No one would accuse Dr. Davidson of being dead-and-alive...