Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just babes in the woods," remarked Robert Ralph Young seven months ago when he and two other inconspicuous capitalists suddenly loomed as financial giants by buying control of Alleghany Corp., holding company for the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine...
...obtain these fares passengers are required to begin their outward journeys from any point on either Saturday or Monday and return anytime, any ship, within 15 days. Examples: Round Trip Rail, Pullman TWA Columbus-New York $46.40 $45.15 Albuquerque-New York 166.00 163.95 New York-Los Angeles...
...reckoning the rail cost, meals en route and tips at journey's end are not included, TWA carries passengers from Los Angeles to New York in 16 hours, provides free meals en route and no tips are necessary; by rail in standard trains the journey takes about 77 hours and generally requires some $10 extra for meals, $2 in tips...
...wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined it in 1896 as a solicitor, Mr. Harrison nominated to succeed himself his operating vice president, Ernest Eden Norris. The election took about the same length of time as a flag whistle and the southeast's largest rail system got as its fourth president its first operating...
...there was no loafing on either side. New dugouts were going up, fitted with heat and electric light, drainage ditches were being dug on trench lines and supplies of food and clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau there were not more than six or seven weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease...