Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lane of 14-foot cornstalks appeared at the West Branch, Iowa, railroad station. Down it, early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what...
...discussed high railroad freight rates as a factor in the Farm Problem: "It is as if a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole section of our country. ... Some calculations which I made a few years ago showed that the increases in railway rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles further from seaboard...
...dwelt on modernization of inland waterways as the best relief from high railroad rates: "By modernization, I mean increasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This Administration has authorized the systematic undertaking of this modernization. Within a few years we will have completed the deepening of the Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Illinois to Chicago...
...Bunzlau, Silesian railroad town on the Sober River, one Eduard Kemp haled his neighbors around his piano. Playing the piano was his forte and he was going to play it for a long, long time. For hours he played. Neighbors gaped, yawned, went home to sensible featherbeds. Next day they found him playing erratically, and the next day more erratically. After 82 hours he ceased. Crazily he challenged the world for his peculiar competition...
...Kentucky Mountain Fantasies the noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...