Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equipment of today is not the junk heap on wings that some people would make you believe it is," said able, active F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, to railroad men in New Haven, Conn., last week. He sketched the five-year aviation program, now under way: 2,000 airplanes, 1,650 flying officers, 500 flying cadets, 14,500 enlisted men-for the Army Air Corps before 1932. The Navy has a similar program...
...advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs to him. Wrote...
General William Wallace Atterbury, President, Pennsylvania Railroad Co., said last week that 1926 was the road's most profitable year-net income $67,567,958 from total railway operating revenues of $766,989,363. The system operates 4.9% of the total miles of road and 7.05% of the total miles of track in the U. S., yet last year handled 10.92% of all the freight traffic arid 17.91% of all the passenger traffic. It carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles...
However, the Vagabond may continue his quest for knowledge for two hours, in Economics 2 at 9 o'clock, and in History 13, at 10 o'clock. In Economics 2, Professor Gay will lecture on "Railroad Development Since the War". Dr. Baxter will speak on "Great Britain and the American Civil War" at 10 o'clock in Sever 35. This should be of especial interest to all Southern students in the University, and the Vagabond invites all to meet him there...
...witching hour of nine, still it is deemed advisable by those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads to keep one entranced for many hours...