Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railways: "The German Railroad Company is in a strong financial position owing partly to the recent increase in its tariffs and to the beginnings of improved financial control. There is no question about the ability of the company to carry the full annual charge for the service of its Reparations bonds, provided it follows a prudent financial policy...
Even in 1850 there was anti-railroad legislation, for at the foot of the timetable is a notice. "At the request of Superintendent Alcohol, there will be a business meeting, by and by, of the stockholders and conductors of the road, to hear a report concerning liabilities under the Higher...
After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
When a prisoner's term has been served, he gets a $12 suit of clothes, a railroad ticket and $10, along with the words: "Make good...
...Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics, for by profession he is an architect. Among his buildings is the New York Central Railroad Station at Rochester, N. Y., in which town he lives...