Word: railings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest experiment-for it is still such-in rail transportation under gasoline power will be tried on the Rock Island, on whose rails Mack Truck will soon place the "Mack Rail Car." This new engine has resulted from three years' study of the problem; it is practically regular railway equipment, and can be coupled into two, three-or four-car trains with 90 horse power motors on each truck...
...President and Mrs Coolidge held a reception at White Court to which Union Labor heads were invited. To Swampscott buzzed limousines bearing many factotums of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and rail-road Trainmen, faithful pundits of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Associated Railroad Yard-men of America, hardy potentates of the International Association of Steam Fitters and Plumbers. Mr. Coolidge had a pleasant word for those he knew, His decisive action in the Boston police strike caused some of the Union leaders to style themselves his "friendly enemies...
...deliberations of the I. C. C. in the Nickel Plate and other cases, as well as the slow progress made in the rail valuations, have afforded a quite legitimate excuse to railroad heads for not accomplishing more mergers in recent months...
...limits and open seasons on migratory game, to offset the awful annual increase in hunters, guns and killing. The only bag-limit change any Secretary has made during the last eight years (1918 to 1925) has been to raise the bag limit on the poor little sora rail from 25 per day to 50 per day! Can you beat that record for sheer evasion of duty and lost opportunities...
Transportation facilities are rapidly being created in the "Dark Continent." The Cape-to-Cairo route of about 5,000 miles by rail and water lacks only 300 miles of railway line. Also, the Benguella railway line from the Katanga copper fields to the African west coast is largely completed, and the unfinished portion is being steadily lessened. Altogether there are 23,000 miles of existing railway mileage in Africa, which provide freight as well as passenger facilities. More and more African railways are used for commerce; in the beginning they were patronized mainly by travelers...