Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apartment in a modern Swiss hotel. Then came a corridor of a Parisian hotel, intermission, the Swiss hotel again, the glacier, the balcony of still another hotel set for dining and dancing to a radio's loudspeaker, a street in the middle of the town, a railroad terminal with real trains, the terminal exit with a real automobile, the terminal's tracks again-and then the station's great clock swelling into a revolving globe with the Woolworth building and the Statue of Liberty for successive back drops, gay streamers, U. S. flags, the people all dancing...
Married. Thomas Fortune Ryan 2d, 29, grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Mrs. Margaret Moorhead Rea, 29, divorced wife of the son of the onetime president of Pennsylvania Railroad; in the Municipal Building, Manhattan...
When, last week, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposed expenditure of $50,000 for northern extensions of its lines in Saskatchewan, alarm was felt by the Canadian National Railroad and also by leaders of the King government. For if the Canadian Pacific builds new lines north from Saskatoon and Prince Albert, it will be running through territory hitherto regarded as belonging to the Canadian National. Rural districts in the affected territory are supporting the Canadian National; towns and cities are in favor of the Canadian Pacific. Should the threatened railroad war materialize and become a political as well...
...Canadian National, however, a government-owned railroad formed from the merger of several Canadian railroads, was in an extremely bad way. Trackage was far out of proportion to traffic; service was often unreliable; profits were nonexistent. Today, however, Canadian National is a worthy rival to Canadian Pacific; since 1922 has steadily risen in performance, in prestige. For in that year came U. S.-born Englishman Sir Henry Thornton to change Canadian National from liability to asset...
...Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...