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Word: rails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikebreaker on the railroads for nine weeks during the strike this fall. Mr. Williams received first-hand information as to the rail situation. "One of the leading causes of the strike was the sudden calling off of the men's standing as railway workers, and the disregarding of seniority and priority rights by the practice of farming out the shopwork. On 19 different line shop-work was thus contracted out to dummy corporations, and as a result of this the workers on other roads feared that their standing and rights would also be nullified later, unless they made a protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOPERATION IS ONLY SOLUTION FOR UNREST SAYS WHITING WILLIAMS | 11/14/1922 | See Source »

...opportunity offered for public opinion to crystallize and be expressed with regard to commercial flying, which has not reached nearly the proportions in this country that it has in Europe. It is now possible to fly from Vienna to Paris between sunrise and sunset; a journey by rail of 32 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL ASSOCIATION HAS MANY OBJECTS | 10/24/1922 | See Source »

...appointed by the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to report on the advisability of connecting all sources of energy on the Eastern seaboard into one central, superpower system. Mr. Murray is known especially for his work in electrifying the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Rail-road from New York to Stamford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERPOWER ELECTRIC SYSTEM MOST EFFICIENT | 4/1/1922 | See Source »

...wants none of these "fool new-fangled" notions. But he cannot get away from facts, and he cannot keep his eyes shut always. All farmers are much the same, be they Russian or whatever; our western farmer is very conservative, and the one who keeps to his horses will rail against the one who uses a tractor as an innovator and an idiot, but he will usually buy a tractor himself eventually, and then look down on the poor benighted heathen who uses horses. Consistency does not bother him as it does the upper class conservative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LANDED EDUCATOR | 3/6/1922 | See Source »

...cartoons is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener. Included in the collection is a life mask of Lincoln together with a cast of his hands made by Leonard W. Volk, the sculptor. On one hand may plainly be seen a scar gained in the President's rail-splitting days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOW LINCOLN MEMORIALS IN TREASURE ROOM OF WINDENER | 2/18/1922 | See Source »

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