Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair, he took Fall's son-in-law, Mahlon T. Everhart, aboard his private car in the Washington railroad yards one night and handed over $198,000 in Liberty Bonds, supplementing this sum with $35,000 at his Manhattan office some days later. He was supposed to be buying a one-third interest in a run-down ranch of Fall's at Tres Rios (Three Rivers), N. Mex. They were going to turn the ranch into a country-club. But no club eventuated. Fall used the money to pay off debts and improve the property...
...action of this play occurs in the small town of Drumheller, Alberts, a coal mining community on the Canadian National Railroad, seventy miles northeast of Calgary. The story is borrowed intact from the Royal Mounted Records of Drumheller's last coul strike...
Homer Loring, Boston specialist in rejuvenation of worn-out corporations, resigned last week as chairman of the board of directors of the unfortunate Boston & Maine Railroad. Directors insisted on voting him $100,000 for his four years of voluntary service. He accepted the check, established a Boston & Maine Employes' fund with it, adding: "The task seemed worth undertaking, and the satisfaction and enjoyment in having helped accomplish it have been adequate compensation for what I have contributed...
...potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack. It is all rather diverting. Sidney Howard wrote it, using his successful play, They Knew What They Wanted, as a basis...
...Night Flyer. Speedy, thrilling is this picture of how the mail train raced to Medicine Bend. Director James Cruze routed from the round house the engines of pioneer railroad days as a setting for a story as primitive as that of Casey Jones...