Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government's handling the electric by-product "as private enterprise can very well fill this field." Again let the Muscle Shoals power...
...present there are six large locomotive bells from old engines, and an old kerosene headlamp four feet high which was found last year in Profile Notch, N. H. Other relics are five oldstyle ventilators from car number 7 of the Boston and Lowell railroad, an oil can used on one of the early engines, a group of switch keys, instruments used in surveying the Boston and Lowell railroad and the original surveys, which are very valuable, the first rail of that road, and a large watering pot with two glasses which was used in the '80's to provide drinking...
...exhibition of advertising is interesting both from the railroad and advertising point of view. Some of the colored posters show a remarkable improvement over the usual unartistic methods of American advertising...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...
...Fisk had the fun. As Prince of Erie he gloried in running the notorious railroad. Then he built the Fall River Line of boats, painted the cabins a delicate green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp...