Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convenience of students who are planning to go south or west for Christmas Vacation, the prices of round trip tickets to various points by air, or rail, are listed here...
...seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great guy" acts. For five miles from the landing place to the U. S. Embassy, President Justo and ten carloads of officials escorted Franklin Roosevelt through a storm of flowers hurled by crowds who had come by rail and motor car from all over Argentina...
...19th Century matured, seagoing boats outgrew the Hudson. Railroads killed the canal. But since Albany sits at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent...
...wore a beard." While laboriously composing her letter to the great man (and she made only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering the campaign pictures of Hannibal Hamlin and Abraham Lincoln...
...Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 67, last of Cleveland's realty and railroad-owning Van Sweringen Brothers; of heart disease; while riding to Hoboken, N. J. from Cleveland where he boarded a train of the Nickel Plate road, which the brothers built into the largest privately held U. S. rail system, nearly lost during Depression...