Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...launches, in which the travellers crossed it, jounced and plunged. Like President Barahona of Honduras, President Pio Romero Bosque of Salvador found himself unable to receive the visitors, but sent his ministers of exchequer and foreign affairs. These dined the Hoovers at the home of James Gaylor, railroad man. The Maryland sailed that evening for Corinto, Nicaragua...
After they buried Casey Jones, an old roundhouse Negro worker, Wallace Saunders, began to chant a song about him. In the railroad yards between New Orleans and Chicago, whites and blacks added verse after verse to Casey's epitaph. Soon there were some 50 verses and many a chorus. Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert converted them into a popular hit. Extracts...
Built for Northern Pacific Railroad, built by American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains...
...said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less; held them until they sold at from $1.11 to $1.14½; realized a profit of a million dollars. It was in railroad stocks, however, that he made his first market profits. Back in 1904 he bought some 1,500 shares of Soo Line stock at from 54 to 60, sold at 160, made what he would now consider the trifling profit of $150,000. Since beginning his eastern operations, U. S. Steel, International Harvester...