Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...
Died. Ira Adelbert Place, 73, vice president and general counsel for the New York Central Railroad; in Manhattan...
...hundred fifty two train passengers were killed in 1926 (latest available figures). In 1906, when the travelling public was much smaller, 359 were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What...
...alumni, to parents, professors and teach-ers." Cruises are to begin when school semesters end this summer, to conclude in time for autumn registrations. Ships, carrying both men and women, will sail from Los Angeles and San Francisco, with Seattle an alternative debarkation port. The cruise fare includes railroad transportation...
...revolt of the peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...