Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...labor to the sections of the country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will be met in part by diverting to the ocean service many of the ships now engaged in the coastwise trade, thereby making it necessary for the railroad companies to handle the additional traffic now carried by our coastwise vessels, and I believe that they will be equal to the emergency...
...does not in the least tend to establish that wage fixing acts are "due processes of law." The dissenting judges in performing the process of balancing the interests must have regarded the predominant effect of the Act as one which substituted the legislative flat for the freedom of the railroad managers to contract with employees as to wages...
...HAVEN, CONN., MARCH 19, 1917.--Mrs. S. V. Harkness has offered to Yale University new junior-senior dormitories to cover a whole block and accommodate 600 men. This gift is made in memory of Charles W. Harkness, Yale 1983, prominent at Yale and in the railroad and banking business. The Yale Corporation has voted to accept the gift. James Gamble Rogers, Yale 1983, has been appointed executive architect and Day and Klander consulting architects. This gift will put all Yale students in dormitories, and will provide a new building for the Peabody Museum, a new heating plant, and perhaps also...
...Widener Library has recently received a bequest of a collection of books and reports concerning railroads by the will of the late Robert D. Jenks '97, of Philadelphia. Mr. Jenks was a lawyer, especially interested in railroad problems and statistics, and his collection is valuable. The library has lately received its regular shipment from England. Among the books received was a complete set of "Punch" for the Farnsworth Room...
Captain E. A. Teschner '17 and W. H. Meanix '19, who were scheduled to compete in the big A. A. U. indoor track carnival Saturday night, did not go to New York on account of the threatened railroad strike. Teschner was entered in the 60 and 300-yard events, while Meanix was to run in the hurdles...