Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...
...River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City of the West...
...drooped, malnourished industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...
Arrangements for the Harvard-Yale boat races, to be held on Friday, June 22, were completed yesterday in New Haven by officials from Harvard, Yale and the N. Y., N. H., and H. Railroad Company. The race will be rowed at '6 o'clock. Eastern Standard Time, and the course is to be down-stream this year. Although a definite time has been set, the actual beginning of the race will depend, as usual, on the weather and water conditions...
...Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents now and then. Penn State (so far removed from civilization that even the Pennsylvania Railroad can play tyrant with its hears no voice from afar except in Sunday Chapel, when occasionally a minister from Altoona and even Philadelphia may lecture. And it seems that any opportunity that would enable students to listen to the greatest of their own faculty ought to be welcomed by that body...