Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greensboro Daily News quoted from TIME: "You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention...
Readers, who last week thumbed their magazines and newspapers for advertisements of railroad routes and accommodations, paused at a full page display. Its headlines read...
...railroad presidents can say: "I was a Burlington...
...coincidence of their training with the Burlington is noteworthy. Noteworthy too are the facts that six of the ten served their railroad apprenticeships with this line, that six of them are in their 60's, that Presidents Daniel Willard and Howard Elliott might also write themselves university trustees (TIME...
Gently boastful though these advertisements were, yet they revealed a quaint modesty. They might well have told of the eleventh Burlington-trained railroad president. He is Hale Holden, 57, president of the Burlington itself...