Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer passes, the prospects for higher prices of railway shares brighten. For some months, while 'rails" have been practically stationary, "industrials" have soared. With record freights looming this fall, and with President Coolidge's open stand in behalf of voluntary rail mergers, however, enthusiasm for railroad shares is plainly reviving...
...stone pillars, fortressed quadrangles, powder turrets -on into Czecho-Slovakia, energetic Republic blazing" with red roofs, factory chimneys, to the place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that the directors of the Franco-Rumanian line announced last week that their passenger and freight traffic had multiplied by five in the past year...
...going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras and scientific eyes will be brought to bear upon...
...right of the people of a state to dictate the conduct of schools created and supported by them. He further reminded the public that this would be the first trial of any magnitude in which he had taken part since 1897, when he assisted Nebraska in suits over rail rates...
...government had the advantage in financial strength and man-power, but the Negroes were a compact body known as the Solid South and had superior technical skill in working the railroad system. Through this control of communications the Southern party was victorious, and the Negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative, and in many parts of the country special coaches were reserved for them. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic...