Word: railed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace his course. Then he discovered how it was possible for a man to be electrocuted in a subway car designed to insulate its passengers from any possible contact with the third rail...
Than Railroader Loree no living rail roader is more famed or more acute. He was not asking Santa Claus for these rail roads; he was asking the Interstate Com merce Commission. And even had he asked the I. C. C. for the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & 0. and other miscellaneous billion-dollar lines, his plea would have received earnest attention...
...first place, Mr. Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...
...East, railroads run mostly East and West. Mr. Loree shaped a system of which New England is the head, the Appalachian Mountains are the backbone and Virginia the Southern extremity. Thus as he, in his dreams, stepped down the Atlantic Coast, he trod on every big Eastern Rail road toe. But the plan, however original, was regarded last week as a protest rather than as a proposal -a protest against the D. & H. being gobbled up by the giants...
...school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ; Paul Shoup; president of Southern Pacific Rail way; Newcomb Carlton. president of Western Union Telegraph...