Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif...
...week, were: Fleischmann Co. ("I was bilious"): $9,529,055. as against $9,315,352. Simmons Co. (Bedmakers for David Binney Putnam): $2,501,438 as against $2,242,482. Coca Cola International Corp. (The heat, the humidity): $1,264,533 as against $1,204,023. N. Y. Central Railroad Co. (20th Century Limited): $28,544,608 as against $30,959,292. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (Broadway Limited) : $51,277,232 as against $51,125,413. Delaware and Hudson Co. (Leonor Fresnel Loree): $2,628,071 as against $2,429,024. Postum Co. (The Edward F. Button...
...constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite; in the preservation of railroad ties, telegraph poles, shingles; in the flavoring of tobacco; the solvents of shoe dyes and leather dressings. Furfural, if necessary, could substitute for gasoline...