Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Court, in effect: the I. C. C. valuation is always tentative for any given railroad; it can always be modified; and since the figures do no one harm, not even prejudice, the Court has no interest in this present complaint...
That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse...
...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
Last week, her conversion, her guileless movements among the circusy proponents of God recurred to the handmaiden in New York. She remembered how papa and mamma had become religious, converted. The old home in Oklahoma, 80 miles from a railroad, was forgotten and plans were made to leave the new house in Fresno. Meetings were arranged, hundreds of meetings. Uldine liked to talk about God. The girl grew loquacious, talked all over the country. It is said she has converted...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...