Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...
...JAMIESON Calgary, Alberta, Canada So close is Canada to the U. S., so similar its interests, so interwoven its activities, that many a Canada story is treated of by TIME Foreign News. Example: "'World's Greatest Railroad," TIME, April 15, Business. Let more Canadians say how they would like their Canada news - under "Canada" in Foreign News or mixed through TIME...
...Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry Worth Thornton (TIME, Jan. 28) has lifted Canadian...
...recent and contemporary history of Canadian railroads is found in the careers of Canadian Pacific's Beatty and Canadian National's Thornton. Beatty was born a British citizen; Thornton became one (1916). Both have been honored by the British Crown. Beatty is a King's Counsel; Thornton a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire. Both played football, Beatty at University of Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over...
...Sugar Refining Co.) totaled $9,614,432, as against $6,618,740 in 1927. Its holdings are wide and diverse. Not only does it own sugar refining plants but also a cooperage company, a coal company, and 300,000 acres of Cuban sugar land, equipped with factories and a railroad. This property produces 12% of all the company's raw sugar requirements...