Word: railings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volume of traffic, 1924 should rank only after the extraordinary rail way year of 1923. Carloadings this year are expected to reach 49,000,000 cars-about 1,000,000 less than 1923, but 4,000,000 over the heavy year of 1920. Loadings of merchandise, miscellaneous and less-than-carload freight l have tended to increase during the past year, while a decline has been witnessed in coal, ore, coke...
...year 1924 saw more new railway mileage under construction than any year since the War; the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized construction of 1,318 miles of new lines, while it permitted only 453 miles of old lines to be abandoned. Shippers are practically all of the opinion that 1924 rail service was the most speedy and efficient ever afforded. Capital expenditures of railroads for rehabilitation of cars and locomotives was $563,000,000 this year, against...
After the election results were received and digested by the public, the stock market proceeded to go immediately on record as optimistic of the business future. The obliteration of LaFollettism removed a heavy prejudice against rail securities; at the same time, basic industries like steel and oil gave signs of expansion and higher prices...
...dozen children of poor parents, grew up under the hardships to which so many Slavic writers have been heirs. Early expelled from school for refusing to abandon his native language for the Russian, he tried variously to make a livelihood?as store clerk, telegraph operator, actor, rail employe, farm hand, Paulist novice. He wrote his first short story, The Death, in 1894. He is now working on a cycle of six novels, of which one will have its setting in the U. S., whither he came in 1919 to study the life of Polish peasants who had emigrated...
...Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...