Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...
...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
Died. Benjamin Arrowsmith Hegeman, 68, Manhattan railroad magnate, manufacturer (railway appliances, varnish), onetime president of the American Railway Association; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter and the heroine has become a great actress. Each thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that. For revenge the heroine attempts to win the fiance of the hero's daughter, who, of course, turns out to be the heroine...
Moreover, every railroad would have to scrap its time tables and publish new ones telling how on the fourth of Sol, No. 3456 stopped only when flagged and that there would be special excursion rates from...