Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prouty insisted upon the fact that the railroad question is still to be settled. As it is to be settled by public opinion, that opinion must be intelligent in order to judge impartially...
...trade and industry, and even upon the lines along which modern civilization shall advance. This may be shown by a concrete example. The rate from Chicago to New York is less than from intermediate points to either terminus. The result is that producers are forced to do business at railroad centres. A decision of the Commission to change this condition would alone do much in the interest of humanity by withdrawing the impediment to rural industrial expansion...
...Howard Elliott '81, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and a member of the Board of Overseers, lectured in the Union last night on "The Northwest and Railroads...
...Howard Elliott '81, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, will deliver the third of the lectures on professions in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "The Northwest and Railroads...
...Elliott has been connected with railroading in the West since he was graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1881. Like nearly every present-day railroad man of note, he has filled numerous positions, varying in responsibility from minor clerkships to that which he now holds as president of one of the most progressive railroads of the country...