Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working hours will be devoted to plane and topographic surveying, including cartography, triangulations, land, road and shoreline surveys, and observations for the determination of meridian and latitude; railroad surveying, with earthwork, slope-staking, preliminary survey, estimate of quantities and cost and other subjects connected with the laying of railroads will also be a part of the curriculum...
...Detroit Free Press (1906). Said he once of journalism: "There is no work so trying or so satisfying." It was also contactual for him, and his theatrical money helped him make use of his contacts. He, in an unobtrusive way became a director of the Ann Arbor Railroad...
...Wabash, however, has vast importance in the present flux of railroad mergers. And the inclusion of a potent newspaper owner...
...lives in Detroit, its terminal city), is a bold act. Not since the financially riotous null and 1880's which brought the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887) and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) has an important railroad dared be so intimate with the press...
...Wethered's drive went straight down the course. So did Perkins's. But Perkins won the first hole and was never down. Several holes were halved, as when Mr. Wethered drove onto a railroad track and Perkins missed a one-yard putt, but in the afternoon on the fourteenth hole it was Mr. Wethered who missed the yard putt, giving Perkins the hole, the match, and the amateur championship. All the U. S. players had been put out in the early rounds...