Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rail the farmers suddenly began pouring into Washington one day last week. Special trains arrived by night, parked near the Department of Agriculture Building. Shortly after sunrise a column of men with horny hands, brown faces and shaved necks climbed down from the Pullmans, filed into the Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff...
...hold its own with the best of them. Because the peninsula of Jutland turns a sandy, treacherous, sparse backbone to the North Sea (see map), Danes from the earliest times have concentrated in the Baltic islands. Copenhagen, the capital, and Hamlet's Elsinore (now an important rail and ferry junction for Sweden and Norway) are on the largest island, Zealand. A large proportion of the fish, butter, eggs and bacon that are Denmark's chief products come from the island of Fünen. Danish motor roads are excellent, railroads (50% government-owned, the rest with the State...
...reason was that in case of a wreck the sleeper's head would come in contact with the steel partition which would naturally increase chances of an immediate death, the reason for this being that a number of States have laws which limit the liability of the rail-road in case of death but do not limit the liability in case of injury...
...until U. S. railroads were flat on their backs, did Rev. Calthrop's "Air-Resisting Train" come into its own. With nearly one-third of the country's Class I rail mileage in bankruptcy, with two-thirds of the passenger traffic lost since 1929 to motorcars, busses, airlines, something had to be done. The bogey of government ownership, long the subject of dark predictions by Federal Transportation Co-Ordinator Eastman, loomed ominously close with the introduction of a bill in the Senate fortnight ago to have the U. S. take over in January...
...special hazards of its own. Instead of hedges which a horse can brush without falling and which, when the big field has crashed through them on the first circuit of the course, are considerably easier the second time around, the Maryland jumps are timber fences with the top rail securely nailed down. In a blue-green pocket of the hills a few miles outside of Baltimore, eight horses went to the post last week...