Word: railings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government operation, and now Eastern general counsel of the Great Northern, has joined Hale Holden, president of the C. B. & Q. in advocating railroad mergers as a cure for the railroad problem in the United States. Holden's plan, supported by Hines and other big railroad executives, contemplates a rail consolidation that would tie up every road west of the Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to tap the Panama traffic...
...combine the 62 railway systems west of Chicago into four great groups is the plan of President Hale Holden of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Each group would include 30,000 to 35,000 miles of rail; each would have an investment value of approximately two billions; each would have access to the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean. The divisions proposed are based geographically upon the four great systems of the West...
...Rail executives, railway lawyers, and the press are of divided opinion as to the feasibility of Mr. Holden's plan...
...this country, especially the larger colleges, hazing and bullying seem to be extinct traditions, though a feature of them is preserved in certain forms of initiation. It is true that the recent case, at a western college, of a student who was ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered because he cheered for the opposites team, shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter...
...Constructive Thought is very much better it is being used in the United States in robbing the railroads. The tracks are not blown up, bridges burned, etc... but legislation is adopted to strip them. Labor bills are increased, thousands of petty of fleials are paid salaries to manage rail road affairs. Thus railroad income is widely distributed, and the railroads kept in operation. The same plan is also applied to general industry by means of providing not only a living wage, but surplus for sarings. Finally the well-to-do will be stripped without musay bloodshed. Howe'a Monthly...