Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after their conference with the stockholders of the Erie. Next they will confer with those of the Hocking Valley and of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They seek to mollify minority stockholders who dissented so strenuously last spring from permitting their roads to join with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate Railroad into a billion-dollar Nickel Plate System...
Banker Van Vetchen's availability as a President is not lessened by his directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...
...either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking St. George, Hamilton and Somerset Ferry. The Bermuda Railway Co. Ltd. was careful to add that its trains would have trailers, for baggage and bicycles." Die-hard Bermudans nevertheless shook their heads. "Alas," said they, "and then it will be freight cars, milk trains, grade crossings, Progress...
...cataloged. There is not much news left in them. Yet last week newsgatherers found it necessary to invade the McCormick privacy just once more. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had done a thing that is almost never done. She had sent her dapper secretary into the Manhattan terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad to order her a special train to Chicago, a fast one, to leave at once, immediately. The railroad was astonished, but efficient none the less. A very fast train whisked Mrs. Cyrus Jr. to Chicago in the record time of 16 hours, 55 minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband...
Conductors and brakemen on the New York Central Railroad are accustomed to seeing sullen, malignant customers riding up the Hudson River in the cars, their wrists manacled to the wrists of impassive burlies who usually sit on the aisle side of the seat. Just before the trains reach Ossining station there is a platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through...