Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manifested lively interest last week in their Canadian railway doctor. Sir Henry Worth Thornton, though a Knight, and though president of the Canadian National Railways, was born in the U. S. at Logansport, Ind., 56 years ago. Both his first and second wives were U. S. born. The Pennsylvania Railroad took him on in the Engineering Department (1894), advanced him steadily, and in 1911 handed over to him the General Superintendentship of the Long Island railroad, a post which he had held for three years...
...trip, successful, encouraged the Pennsylvania Railroad company to announce that hereafter it would regularly provide Pullman cars, specially designed for horses. The cars have a capacity of from one to 24 horses, are named for race tracks, and have enough room to carry an automobile...
...Paul. Some of the bond and stock holders of the old Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway do not yet know that their railroad failed more than three years ago and last year was sold to creditors at auction. The reorganized road is called the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Co. are its bankers. They have been trading new bonds and stocks for old. But owners of $4,000,000 old bonds, 6,000 old preferred shares, and 15,000 old common shares have made no sign of trading...
...will put into operation a daily air-rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...
Meanwhile the Universal Air Lines in cooperation with the New York Central Railroad, prepared to establish, beginning Sept. 8, an air-rail service between New York and Chicago. The schedule...