Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail services and other projects. Latest reports were that Chiang had twice refused the Japanese proposals, but that Trautmann was going to call with them again...
...Chairman Jesse Jones recently said that his commission stood ready to make reasonable railroad loans, it seemed likely last week that the B. & O. would get its loan. Without the loan it seemed equally likely that the line would have to join the 37 other U. S. Class I rail-oad lines now in the courts...
Meanwhile, the tremendous work of tabulating returns from 130,000 voting districts, of which 40,000 have no telegraphic or even rail connection with Moscow, went ahead with feverish activity. It was belatedly announced that 94,138,000 Russians registered to vote and that at least 96.5% had voted. All votes counted for the Stalin regime, since only Stalinist candidates ran, and Soviet officials boasted that not a single ballot had come to light which seemed to have been scratched. On the contrary, millions of ballot envelopes when opened were found to contain not only the voter's name...
...from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail-road car") from Cincinnati to Cumberland...
...wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained...