Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time last year we had passed all the appropriation bills. I can tell in one word what this Congress has done-nothing. The reason for it is that the radical bloc and the investigation hysteria have tied up the Senate. . . . The result will be that there will be no railroad or farm legislation. We may be able to get through tax reduction and immigration bills. It does not look as if any other bills will pass outside of the appropriation measures." Senator La Follette, Insurgent Republican from Wisconsin: "While there has been no relief for the farmers and other measures...
Died. Plimmon Henry Dudley, 80, railroad engineer, inventor of safety devices; in Manhattan. For 33 years he, his wife, all of his inventions, were lodged in a special car which moved about the New York Central lines. He invented the track-indicator, the dynamometer. He designed the first 5-inch steel rail...
...Dillon comes to the University from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a brilliant record of accomplishment in various parts of the world. He was assistant-director of public-works in Cuba from 1908 to 1910, did topographical work in the Philippines 1910-11, and was director of the Panama Railroad 1915 to 1917. During the war he was commissioned a Colonel in the Regular Army, and was awarded...
Among the chief and most original improvements which Mr. Ford has established in his railroad have been the electrification of portions of the property in novel fashion, and a policy toward employees which enables them to buy special 6% certificates of the system...
...Philadelphia, one Mrs. Emma F. Ware functioned as a juryman, signed a verdict in a $150,000 damage suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad. Next day Mrs. Ware startled the U. S. District Court by stating she had "changed her mind." Said she: "I could not sleep last night because I believed I had voted the wrong way. I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the verdict...