Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Albert Baird Cummins called at the White House, saw Mr. Coolidge and emerged saying there would have to be legislation forcing railroad consolidations if these did not soon come about voluntarily...
...York, elaborate investigation there and the discovery, by virtue of the attorney's effort and energy, of the proof necessary to establish and recover a claim of $9,000, which will, with interest, amount to the sum of $12,360. The compensation for professional services likewise included railroad expenses, hotel expenses and miscellaneous disbursements...
...Loree, President of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, recently laid a proposal before the Commission for the construction of a line, 283 miles long, from Allegheny City to Easton, Pa., at a cost of some 205 millions. The purpose of the proposal was to create a new trunk line route that would shorten the distance between New York City and Pittsburgh by 75 or 80 miles...
...Loree's proposal was made as long ago as 1905. It was indorsed by the late E. H. Harriman in 1908, shortly before his death. When Mr. Loree resurrected the plan last year, American railroad men wondered whether he did it in all seriousness, or merely to bedevil the "Big Four" which had more or less ignored him. Mr. Loree was apparently quite in earnest, however, and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to build the new line...
That had been an experience more searching and fundamental than loving a woman, siring children or writing histories. The boy was an orphan who had grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government...