Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That he had gone on a " junket" across the continent, his railroad bills being paid by the Government, the remainder of his expenses, amounting to $5,400, being paid by Mortimer...
...deep seat of the trouble is that 80 years ago Georgia, in trying to open up the northwestern part of her territory, built a railroad ? the Western and Atlantic from Atlanta to Chattanooga. This road is under lease to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, but it is still the property of the State of Georgia. Now Chattanooga wants to condemn land for a street through the railroad yards of Georgia's railway. Georgia asked the Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent it. Chattanooga countered by denying the Supreme Court's jurisdiction under the Eleventh Amendment. Last...
...Addison Woolsey Bronson, the book collector, has been permitted to make a copy of a unique poem which Rudyard Kipling wrote some years ago for Mr. F. D. Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...
...foot saurian which waded through the swamps of Utah approximately 10,000,000 years ago, has been hewed out in 25 tons of sandstone, near Vernal, Utah, by Dr. C. W. Gilmore, of the U. S. National Museum. It was hauled 152 miles over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck and tail composed of scores of vertebrae...
Died. Colonel James Alexander McCrea, 48, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Pittsburgh, of pneumonia. (See page...