Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...extraordinarily successful. He studied and memorized corporation balance sheets; he courted his wife, Annie Griffen, the daughter of an Irish manufacturer, by reading railroad folders with her on a Central Park bench. He also picked up a pirate's knowledge of the shoals and reefs, the rich plunder and the dangers of the stockmarket from the tough crew who dominated Wall Street then: Thomas Fortune Ryan, James Keene, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
Died. The Right Rev. James Edward Freeman, 76, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C.. since 1923; of a heart attack; in Washington. For 15 years an accountant for the New York Central Railroad, he took orders when...
...took a hard crack at "extravagant" claims that any number of planes could absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
...Sergeant Albert Joseph Erickson of Chicago, on duty with a South Pacific mobile reconnaissance squadron. His third test paper on the duties of a railroad rate clerk was held up: "A little of the real McCoy popping over here...