Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mount Nickerson is about 100 miles north of Boston, and is situated only a quarter-mile from the Mount Whittier railroad station, which means easy access for snow trains...
Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
...spelled both ways) ran away from his home at Middleton, Tenn., walked several hundred miles to Ripley, near Oxford, to stay with an uncle. He found the uncle in jail, charged with murder. He sat down on the courthouse steps and "swore he would some day build a railroad along the route he had walked...
...Boston and Maine railroad, will run one ski train Sunday through Crawford Notch to Fabyan, New Hampshire, leaving Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning and returning the same evening. Crawford Notch has ten inches of snow, while Fabyan...
Three years ago, onetime New York State Senator John Ambrose Hastings, once one of Jimmy Walker's henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would...