Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroads. "The steady gain in the volume of railroad traffic, characteristic of recent years, continued in 1925-26. The ton-mile age of freight increased nearly 8% over the preceding year, in which it had already marked a record. The constantly rising efficiency of the railroads is emphasized by the fact that this greater traffic was handled with practically no change in the number of employes...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, Governor of New York: "I had fun one afternoon last week. Having rested myself at the Seaview Golf Club at Atlantic City, I went to the railroad station to meet Mrs. Smith and some friends coming from New York. I was 20 minutes early, so a group of urchins with a harmonica attracted me. Espying a red-headed lad among them, I said: 'How about a Charleston, sonny?' The harmonica began to swell; the lads began to dance and wiggle. I tilted my derby, clapped my hands, shouted 'Hey! Hey!' while my foot...
...said that higher education has little benefit for the practical business man. Yet here is a railroad coming to not one but several universities with the object of clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable...
...list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm relief, World Court (an issue which is now fast...
Married. Charlotte MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William Dugald MacDougall; to Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to China and Japan; at Portsmouth, N. H. Married. Lawrence Lewis, one-time husband of Louise Wise Lewis (who inherited part of the Flagler railroad and oil millions); to one Ruby Vaughan Bigger; in Richmond...