Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary Cassatt was the sister of the late Alexander J. Cassatt, onetime President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. She went to Paris in 1875, where she studied art, becoming an ardent admirer of Velasquez, Manet, Degas. She has long been recognized as one of the foremost American artists. Her particular metier is pastel but she has turned her facile hand to etchings and oils as well. Miss Cassatt, the friend of many people of prominence, has been respected for her personality and her ability everywhere...
...America. They settled on a farm in Indiana, near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...
...Railroads have long been a favorite source of tax revenue, not only to the Federal Government, but to all of the 48 states. Recently the Committee on Public Relations of the eastern roads compiled some figures on railroad taxation, and made some striking discoveries...
Furthermore, while railroad operating costs are now 100% and over, more than they were at the outbreak of the War, railroad income has during the same period increased only 50%. The railroads have survived this handicap only by increased efficiency in putting more freight in each car and more cars on each train...
...seems to railroad men particularly unfair that much of the money taken from them in the form of taxes has been spent to furnish free rights of way in the form of new roads, to such competing forms of transportation as motor trucking, "Even competing canals have been constructed at the railroads' expense...