Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad...
...line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital of Teheran and thence on to an undetermined point on the Caspian seashore...
...last cheer has died, and the shadows of approaching evening cast lengthened palls upon the greensward of the Palmer Stadium, the presses of the great metropolitan dailies will already be pounding out, over and over again, the name of the Hero. Unnoticed in the crowd that rushes for the railroad station, unnoticeable, except that perhaps his felt hat is a little twisted by fingers that itched for the rough surface of a ball, will return the scrub. He has made no sensational tackle beneath the very gallows shadow of the goalpost, he has run back no punts through the very...
...Guernsey, assistant director of the Peabody Museum, will go to northeastern Arizona to obtain data for a model of a cliffdwelling. The particular dwelling which will be copied is in the Segi Canyon situated over 200 miles from the nearest railroad. The model will be made and colored insofar as possible in the vicinity of the original...
Last week Leonor Fresnel Loree was 70 years old and last week he sold his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system for $63,000,000 and the assurance that his Delaware & Hudson would not be obliterated by the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio or the Van Sweringen group...