Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return the Saar to Germany in 1928, and withdraw all opposition to the purchase by Germany from Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy; 2) Germany to transfer to France for these concessions four billion francs ($100,000,000) to be realized by the sale to private investors of German railroad securities...
Leonor Fresnel Loree, shaggy railroad organizer, attended an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing at Dallas last week. There were 300 other railroad men and lawyers present at that hearing, but none of more importance than Mr. Loree. Indeed Mr. Loree was the prime cause of the hearing because, as chairman of both the Kansas City Southern and of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and the controlling interest of the St. Louis & Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"), he is seeking to merge these lines, with approval of the I. C. C., into a southwestern Loree system which will strap the Great Lakes...
...short lines that now serve the territory Organizer Loree would integrate by his system. Most of these short lines are, frankly, no longer profitable, however much so they have been. Traffic is too inactive. But the communities they connect consider that they have a vested right in railroad transportation service, at no matter what losses to the operators...
...President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee...
Only one British railroad passenger was killed during 1925 according to statistics released at London last week. During the same period 6,766 persons were killed in U. S. railroad wrecks. As everyone knows British railroad trains are typically operated on very fast schedules, the "crack trains" between England and Scotland being probably the fastest trains operated on regular schedule in any part of the world...