Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
Leontief received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, then did research work at the University of Kiel. Following that he went to China, where for a year he was adviser on railroad planning to the Chinese Government. He came to Harvard...
...platform of the railroad station of Lublin, in German Poland, teemed. On it stood a forlorn, broken spirited crowd who moved only when shoved. The people were utterly destitute. All they had for baggage was here a knapsack, there a handbag, sometimes just a cloth bundle. A few carried scraps of food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight...
...story was going the rounds last fortnight that General Motors liked the railroad equipment business well enough to go in further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering...
...York Central, rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...