Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other presidential visitors were: onetime Governor William Sproul of Pennsylvania, who introduced E. E. Loomis, President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; Frank L. Perrin of the Christian Science Monitor; U. S. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, who discussed flood conditions; and the United States Champion Junior Dairy Judging Team...
Past Tense. "Now Orleans is safe," said last week's advertisements of the Louisville & Nashville railroad. The advertisement continued by discussing the 1927 flood in the past tense...
...demand for tickets this year is greater than at any time since the war. Formerly seats on the observation trains could be purchased at the New London railroad station on regatta day, but it is not expected that there will be a public sale this year...
...leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile-that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years...
...Paul was the last major U. S. railroad to own its own sleepers...