Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
...late evening of September 18, the whole imposing edifice collapsed like a circus tent assailed by impatient roustabouts. Japan had detected some reputed Chinese sabotage on the Japanese-controlled South-Manchuria Railroad and Japanese troops marched into Mukden. By the standards of the era which had passed, the world has been haywire ever since...
...Khoto, the capital, has three-story buildings, a theatre and traffic lights, although camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there...
...Coloma. Twenty-one years later San Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated the end of a unique frontier society, an equally unique frontier literature...
...toll roads, bypasses, etc., etc. 750 150 For railroad equipment to be purchased by the Government, leased to railroads...