Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...shacks lives the Widow Kolesar, a dumpy little Slav who chars for her living and fills her four children's bellies with vegetables from their scrawny "garden." Her "old man" was killed while working on the railroad. Nearby lives the Klementovich family. Mother Klementovich is virtually a widow; her "old man" is serving a two-year term in jail for beating her. She works in the factory, tends chickens, takes in a boarder. There are four little Klementoviches...
Royal Meeker, U. S. economist, ridiculed the St. Lawrence waterways project, declared that for the same cost eight parallel railroad tracks could be laid between New York and Chicago...
...epitome of Tropical medicine was the 381-page annual report which United Fruit Co. published last week. United Fruit does a plantation, railroad and shipping business in seven tropical American countries. Long ago its officials prudently decided to maintain the health of their employes, of passengers on their ships. At the beginning of this year 110 Company doctors, laboratory technicians and registered nurses provided medical services for 55,604 plantation employes, 89,053 non-employes, 31,726 ship's personnel, 57,592 ship passengers-a grand total of 233,975 souls, about as many as live in Akron, Ohio...
...Seven Railroads: 1) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose from 197¼ to 275, a gain of 77¼ points. On the basis of 2,416,293 shares of stock outstanding, this was an increase of $186,658,634 in the market value of the company's common shares. 2) Chesapeake & Ohio rose from 218½ to 274, a gain by similar calculations of $65,542,170. 3) Great Northern preferred,* from 111 to 123½ or $31,193,325. 4) New York Central, from 188 5/8 to 241¾, or $246,362,682. 5) New York, New Haven & Hartford...