Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French system of superfrontier defenses by 1940. But in this present year he has saved over four billion francs by discharging 85,000 superfluous Government employes, slashing Government salaries and veterans' pensions, and paring down the State Railways' chronic deficit by drastic reorganization and coordination of rail and road transport. Recognizing that prices must be forced down if the franc is to remain on gold, Gastounet has attacked cautiously the fantastic artificial price of wheat, fixed in France by a previous cabinet at $2.07 per bu. The new fixed price is $1.95 and Premier Doumergue has only begun...
Against death while traveling by rail on Britain's famed Royal Scot, Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the rate of one shilling per ?1.000 (approximately 25? per $5.000). Against death while flying on Imperial Airways Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the same rate...
...votes; Speaker Anglin. 95,000; Commissioner Walton, 81,000. A run-off primary was avoided and the Governorship was practically handed to Mr. Marland when Candidate Anglin withdrew. Growled "Cocklebur Bill" Murray: "I've often said that men would take a cussing or a cold or a rail off your fence, but would not take good advice. They [the voters] refused my advice...
...Wyoming, "Messenger of Peace" in Oregon, "Emmanuel" in Colorado, "Good-Will" in California. Reader Reilly also errs. Notre Dame's chapel car is not maintained by the university, but chartered from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which owns two for Catholic services. These are fitted with altar and rail at one end, with collapsible chairs seating 60 or 70. Nearly every year (but not this year) a wealthy Philadelphia contractor named Joseph Mack assembles about 75 friends, including several priests, hires one of the B. & O. chapel cars and rolls to the Kentucky Derby...
...until March a year later was their curiosity satisfied. His only other appearance in church in Washington was on Easter 1933, when he attended Washington Cathedral. Bishop Freeman and the Cathedral dean gave communion to the President in his pew while Mrs. Roosevelt partook kneeling at the altar rail. On Easter 1934, President Roosevelt held regulation naval services on the Nourmahal on which he was cruising with Vincent Astor...