Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in the era of good Queen Victoria, there was really only one place to live in Chicago-and that was on the South Side. New York had its brownstone fronts and Fifth Avenue chateaux, but Chicago had only its sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object...
Traveling salesmen who swelter in upper berths have often jawed in stuffy washrooms about "these doggone high Pullman rates." In particular they suspected some sort of capitalistic iniquity in the item of a 50% Pullman surcharge accruing to the railroad...
...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 (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
...branch line of railroad takes you from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...
...Railroads of the northwest have "turned the corner," Chairman Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific, said last week. They carry crops, ores and lumber. For the nation there have been ten weeks this year when more than a million cars were loaded. In only one week, that of Jan. 2 were there less than 900,000. This reflects lively interchange of commodities. Gross railroad earnings, January through June, were...