Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became known last week that a committee of Eastern railroad presidents, headed by big, bald Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, was studying the possibility of cutting passenger fares. Thus an amusing cycle in the Eastern railroads' fare policy seemed soon due for completion...
...Boston and Maine Railroad is running two one-day snow trains to Plymouth, one Saturday and one Sunday. The trains will start at 8:30 o'clock in the morning and return the same evening...
...piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...
...will go to Laconia, Plymouth, Waterville Valley (leave bus at West Campton Post Office on going trip and entrain at Campton railroad station on return trip), North Woodstock, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, White River Junction (Tamworth, Wonalancet, Chocorus), Conway, North Conway, Intervale (Jackson, Bartlett, Glen, Pinkham Notch...
...significant since Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which will chaperon the report in the Senate, firmly believes that top-heavy funded debt is the roads' chief ailment. Knowing this and well remembering that the similar Splawn proposals died in Congress, the railroad industry last week was not too sanguine of legislative help. But Franklin Roosevelt still sat pretty, for if Congress again refuses to act he cannot be blamed...