Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifted the veil to the extent of listing "toll roads, tunnels and bridges; rural rehabilitation and farm tenancy loans, especially in the South . . . extension of the rural electrification program; hospital and sanitation facilities . . . expansion of public housing." President Roosevelt referred specifically to the idea of U. S. investment in railroad equipment and said what was being studied was the method of handling it: by loans, or through a new Federal corporation (within RFC) which would keep title to the equipment, lease it to the roads...
...Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must pay some $50,000,000 in accrued damages and interest (principally to Lehigh Valley Railroad, which owned Black Tom, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., which owned the Kingsland plant, and Bethlehem Steel Corp., maker of some of the sabotaged shells...
...last week the soldiers of the Emperor of Japan and the men of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fought on a hundred different fronts. While Chinese regulars tried to stave off further Japanese pushes to the West, guerrillas weaved in and out of Japanese lines, attacked isolated garrisons, cut railroad and telegraph lines...
...German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler on the trouble he was having with stubborn, noncooperative Czechs...
...some of the speculators made up their minds and the stockmarket moved tentatively upward without encouragement from industrial production. Last week the market slowly worked its way up past a minor "resistance point"-140 on. the Dow Jones industrial averages (1938 high 158.41; low 98.95)-waited for the sluggish railroad averages to "confirm" by rising from...