Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroad employees in a "North country" city, Valleyhead, which is singularly dependent on the line in question for all the necessities of life, stirred by a rabid socialist, strike precipitately. The unyielding owners, as also the rest of the community, for the issue is clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or starve. Unfortunately for the cause of labor, the railroad men rouse the opposition of the local medical profession by extending their food boycott even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt...
...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
...Many railroads depend for their prosperity on the crops grown in their particular area. Thus there are "wheat" railroads, "cotton" railroads, "corn" railroads. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is unique in depending for its destinies on the potato...
...sell to the starch factories. Certain starch factories open only when potato prices are low, and on rising prices promptly close. Last year 6,500 carloads of potatoes went into starch, but high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...
...John M. T. Finney, of Johns Hopkins University, Vice Chairman; Judge John H. Dewitt, of Nashville; Edward Dickinson Duffield, President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark; President Cheesman A. Merrick, Girard College, Philadelphia; Judge Nelson H. Loomis, general counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha; Judge Nathan G. Moore, Oak Park, 111.; Robert E. Speer,* Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, Manhattan...