Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a 15 percent fare increase on interstate coach travel now in effect, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad will meet the heavy rush by providing extra cars and employing special schedules on their peak days Tuesday and Wednesday...
Professional Pride. In Berlin, Railroad Gatekeeper Walter Lanik failed to close his gate for a train, remorsefully waited for the next one, jumped under...
...James N. Hill, widow of the son of the great railroad builder, for marrying Charles Blevins Davis, friend of President Truman and onetime escort of Margaret Truman...
...those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had the Japanese whom General Fu harried for eight years. And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping. That area was still firmly in government hands, thanks...
...feet. To combat drought, which periodically killed off thousands of cattle, in 1893 Kleberg drilled the first artesian well in those parts. He built the first of the concrete water troughs for cattle which are now sprinkled around the ranch. He brought in English Shorthorns and Herefords, the railroad (Missouri Pacific), and founded Kingsville. He built the Santa Gertrudis main house...