Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Leighton '88 will deliver two lectures on "Railway Track and Loading Gauges" on Monday and Wednesday of next week. Mr. Leighton has had considerable practical experience in railroad transportation, and has been connected with important roads. Always a very close student of railroad problems, he has made an extensive study of the subject upon which he is to speak. His lectures will treat of the various track and loading gauges in use in the world today, pointing out their advantages and disadvantages. The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides, which Mr. Leighton has collected during the past four years...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Railroad Valuation." Mr. P. B. Kennedy. Upper Dane...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Railroad Valuation." Mr. P. B. Kennedy. Upper Dane...
...reputation as counsel for progressive causes, having been largely responsible for the recognition of the Oregon ten hour law by the Supreme Court. He was chief counsel for the committee which investigated the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy at Washington, and later was appointed counsel for the shippers in the famous railroad rate cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Brandeis's work as a political reformer and his efforts against various forms of social and political injustice have won wide recognition, and the Committee feels itself especially fortunate in securing him to speak before the University in the series of lectures...
...Lecture by W. A. Besler on "Some Phases of Emergency Railroad Work" in Emerson...