Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...further incomplete list of those who will attend the ceremonies includes: Howard Elliott, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and President of the Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad; T. W. Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company; J. P. Morgan '89 of J. P. Morgan and Company; James Simpson, President of Marshall Field and Company; H. N. Straus '03 of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company; and Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company...
...curriculum has now been reduced to one course, Engineering 300, or for those who are enroled in the College. Engineering Sciences 4. This counts as a full course toward a degree and is required of all men who are concentrating in Engineering Sciences. It deals with plane, topographic, and railroad surveying, a large part of the work being in the field...
Third Party Talk. Into Baltimore last week rolled the private car of Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. From it stepped Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, Pierre S. duPont, and a committee of 14 Baltimorans. The party proceeded to a banquet given by the. Southern Maryland Society (composed of Maryland Republicans and Democrats), where, having eaten, Dr. Butler spoke...
...special conference railroad round trip rate of one and one half fares will be effective from all points in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. Tickets will be issued only upon presentation of a special identification certificates, a suppy of which will be sent to each Association. The station is at East Northfield, Massachusetts which is on the Boston and Maine and Central Vermont Railways...