Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happen to have been born in Holland, as were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million carloads of autos, trucks, parts, tires...
Daughter of pioneer Nebraskans, President Pyrtle is principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln, Neb. A few years ago she took out a homestead on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in North Dakota, uses the money realized from the sale of corn crops to buy railroad tickets to educational conventions...
...wishes to buy a railroad will soon have a chance to pick one up at a forced sale. Last week the Chicago & Alton R. R., in receivership since 1922, was ordered sold by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter of the Chicago District Court. Date of the sale will not be announced until priority between conflicting creditors has been settled. The Chicago & Alton is valued at approximately 100 million dollars. Prospective purchasers are said to be Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Samuel Insull...