Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother and two sons. Married in 1900, this sterling citizen has since begotten from the same wife 11 children, of whom two are priests, two nuns. Frau Leopoldine Miklas lives most of the time in a four-roomed house at Horn, one and a half hours from Vienna by rail, with the President's five youngest sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat...
Costa Rica. The last stop in Central America seemed the most impressive. For one thing, Mr. Hoover put on his cutaway and high hat for the first time during the trip. Costa Ricans are ceremonious. Then, there was a 70-mile rail trip, climbing most of the way through tropical mountains, to San Jose, the capital. President Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa...
...dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia is the world's second largest tin producing country...
...relics are five oldstyle ventilators from car number 7 of the Boston and Lowell railroad, an oil can used on one of the early engines, a group of switch keys, instruments used in surveying the Boston and Lowell railroad and the original surveys, which are very valuable, the first rail of that road, and a large watering pot with two glasses which was used in the '80's to provide drinking water for passengers...
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