Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested with four other young women...
...Pittston, Pa., where hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
Southern Pacific Railroad...
Pennsylvania Railroad...
Union Pacific Railroad...