Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HARP IN THE WINDS?Daniel Henderson?Appleton ($1.25). This is the book of a U. S. poet who finds his country pleasant, the world not wholly bad. Delicately, temperately, he writes of "Springtime along the Pennsylvania Railroad," "Tenement Children," "Keats," "Friendship," "The Lackawanna Ferry." A flowery hedge, a regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat...
...citing as the cause for indictment the publication by the paper of the tax figures of individuals chosen at random from long lists of names published. Thus, the Baltimore Post's alleged offense was in making known the payments of five separate citizens, to wit, the Messrs. Daniel Willard (railroad man), Waldo Newcomer (capitalist), and J. Cookman Boyd, Leon C. Coblenz, Frank A. Furst (small tax-payers). None of the individuals had protested their treatment by the papers to the Government...
...Uncle Sam's loan counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process, however, the German roads needed working capital to place them on a money-making basis. Altogether about...
...traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated $24,290,963. This brought the income from the canal to more than $16,000,000, as compared to $10,000,000 in the previous year and to $3,000.000 in the year before that. Adding in the sums earned by the Panama Railroad, the machine shops, commissaries, coaling plants, etc., the net revenue amounted to $18,254,459-handsome enough. U. S. ships were by far the greatest users of the Canal, contributing 61.7% of the total. Great Britain stood next with 22.4%; and 19 other nations, including the Free City of Danzig...
...Continuation of the present Railroad Labor Board and defeat of the Howell-Barclay bill which would abolish...