Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland has attempted to concentrate her industry in the so-called Polish triangle on the upper Vistula. After the first fight in the railroad network area, after the German mechanized army had had a chance to bog down in the muddy roads back of the old frontier, the Polish army would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater...
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia...
...final building in 1848 of the transisthmian railway, used by thousands of U. S. citizens on their way to California's gold rush in '49. (For every mile of railroad built 125 men died of disease...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
...ratified a new treaty which gave the Republic of Panama: 1) control of its own resources (no longer can the U. S. obtain land outside the Canal Zone for "maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection" of the Canal merely by asking); 2) a transisthmian highway, hitherto blocked by Panama Railroad's monopoly; 3) $430,000 instead of $250,000 Canal Zone rent per annum (retroactive to 1934) to compensate for devaluation of the U. S. dollar...