Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bound back to Washington, the President was moved by a demonstration at the Bennington, Vt, railroad station, to make an extemporaneous speech. He said...
...Oklahoma City, the restless tension of the packed streets was punctuated by pistol shots as a policeman shot down a pickpocket. When the special pulled in, there was yelling and tumult from the railroad station to the hotel. The Nominee shaved and received newsgatherers in his bathrobe...
...Names. Express, passenger and freight trains have names; Pullman cars have names; and B. &O. engines.* The Pennsylvania Railroad, building cars: at its Altoona, Pa., shops, decided to name 45 new theatrical scenery cars after famed stage characters (real and literary), 25 new horse express cars after famed racetracks...
...Interstate Commerce Commission rebuffed Leonor Fresnel Loree last week. Among his many railroad activities has been his attempted merging of the Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) and St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") railroads...
John Coolidge, 22, finished the first week of his business career as file-and-claim-clerk in the New Haven offices (ugly yellow brick building) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; salary, $30 a week; hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Said he: "I like...