Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...
...last week, earnings reports for August (first full month since the 25% boost took effect) made it plain that thus far the rate increase has helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...
...authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until the land was producing and then demanded superprofits. Readers will sympathize with the Sandlappers in their losing fight but will be glad that something happened to make the story move...
Williston is lecturing in place of Dean James Landis, professor of Legislation, while the latter is serving in Washington on a commission, appointed by President Roosevelt, to adjust national railroad difficulties. Edmund M. Morgan, Bussey Professor of Law, has assumed the duties of acting dean...
...thesis was embodied in a question "Is it perhaps not desirable that the bulk of long-time financing of our major American industries should hereafter be done through the issuance of shares of stock, rather than by borrowings through the issuance of long-term bonds?" Taking the railroads as the classic example of an industry weighed down with fixed charges,* he pointed out that when a railroad fails, bondholders suffer just about as much as preferred stockholders...