Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highest Railroad...
...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...this last sentence is untrue, so let's correct it and say: "It was not-and is not-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...Green? He is Edward Rowland Robinson Green, 59, only son of the late Hetty Green, undoubtedly the richest and most-talked-about woman in the U. S. in her day or anyone's day. From her, Colonel Green inherited some $175,000,000. He used to be in the railroad business; but now he is retired, devotes most of his time and part of his fortune to a powerful radio station and experimental laboratory on his estate at South Dartmouth. He is glad to have scientists come there to work. As early as 1924, he succeeded in transmitting motion pictures...