Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there idle land here? Main reason is lack of a railroad. U. S. Highway 40 crosses this basin. Two daily stages, Denver-Salt Lake, in summer; one in winter. There is a place for ambitious farmers here...
When he is standing for office, the week before election is a frantic period for any President. In off-years when he is not standing for office, that week is full of troublesome chores. Last week with his mind already on this winter's problems-including railroad legislation, national defense, housing (see p. 18)-Franklin Roosevelt did his big political chore to help elect Democrats who may assist him in carrying out his programs...
...formally renouncing their plan for a 15% wage-cut, as recommended by President Roosevelt's fact-finding board (TIME, Nov. 7), the U. S. railroads dumped their whole rehabilitation problem into Mr. Roosevelt's lap. He promptly asked the six-man committee representing Management and Labor chosen by him in September, to work up a program of railroad legislation for him to present to Congress when it convenes...
...slept not until he heard the roaring exhaust of the Limited as it snatched its Pullmans westward. By the time he was in the second grade, his father was unwillingly escorting him each Saturday afternoon to the roundhouse and shops of the railroad where Petit Vag examined everything with the careful eye of a visiting official. The railroaders were alternately amazed, amused, and flattered by his youthful attentions. Then, after an expensive ara of toy electric trains, which were never really realistic enough, Petit Vag was shipped off to prep school, bribed into going chiefly by the fact that...
Only recently, Vag has discovered a new out let for his train-love. To him the Massachusetts Model Railroad Society's hangout on Atlantic Avenue is a wonderful place--even better than South Station, his erstwhile favorite. A second-rate poet whose name Vag cannot recall likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds...