Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, the Roosevelt candidate set up to purge Senator George, attacks his adversary as a tool of Georgia's utility and railroad companies, a stooge of northern Republicans. Last week this last charge was made more awful when James W. Arnold. Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, urged all Georgia Republicans to jump into the Democratic primary for Senator George and "save this country." There is no Republican candidate for the Senate this year, and 36.942 Republicans (12% of the electorate) voted in Georgia...
...along lines suggested by Lord Runciman. Meanwhile, to make the clamorous Henlein minority perhaps less intransigent, Premier Hodza soon after announced he would give choice political plums to Sudeten Germans by appointing them to seven large postmasterships, a district public works superintendency, two district governorships, more jobs in the railroad administration...
Last week the U. S. Government also did the following for and to U. S. Business : CL Approved a reorganization plan for the Chicago Great Western Railroad...
...onetime Rhodes scholar whose first big job was assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will...