Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halethorpe, near Baltimore, there commenced last week the Fair of the Iron Horse, a pageant-exhibition designed in observance of railroading's first centenary, sponsored by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road Co. In sheds and on sidings, locomotives gathered like blackamoors to an autumn ball. Chooing and spitting cinders, old grandmother engines chatted in squeaky, steamy voices and pooh-poohed the advances of young, sleek, oily, lusty freight-pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which...
...Railroads. Though the pageant was organized specifically for the centenary of the Baltimore & Ohio lines, other rail companies cooperated. The Canadian Pacific, the Pennsylvania, the Great Western, were represented by exhibits. Ten shipping lines sent curiosities...
...interview today with a CRIMSON reporter, Mr. Wulsin, an Associate of the museum, said that Putnam and he will said about October 7 for Paris, whence they will proceed to Dakar on the west African coast. They will then travel 700 miles by rail to Bambako, capital of French Sudan, which is to be their temporary headquarters...
...National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail, had grown fabulously wealthy...
...long, humorous upper lip drew down when he said that. He was obviously temporizing, playing a part, and he is skillful and prompt at playing parts when necessary. The overnight discovery of a quorum last week recalled Mr. Vauclain's tactics when, at the start of a rail strike, labor delegates visited the 25,000 non-union workers in his "little foundry." In 20 minutes he had jailed all the delegates...