Word: railways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Engineering Society. "The Development of the Electric Railway." (Illustrated). Mr. F. D. Everett. Pierce...
...Seminary of Economics. Lecture on "Railway Rate Theories of the English Railway Commission," by Mr. H. B. Vanderbilt, in Upper Dane...
...Seminary of Economics. Lecture on "Railway Rate Theories of the English Railway Commission," by Mr. H. B. Vanderbilt, in Upper Dane...
...three members of the university senate, the governing body, have approved the idea and have arranged to confer with Oxford with a view to obtaining its co-operation. Going still further, the promoters of this plan hope to see the idea broadened until the civil service and the municipal railway are included in the scheme, by making promotion dependent upon military efficiency. Several factors have contributed to the launching of this proposal, the principal ones being the German war excitement, Lord Roberts' campaign in favor of universal military service, and the nationwide discussion of the value of the consolidated territorial...
...would be strange, indeed, if Mr. Wilson's conception of the relative powers of the three orders in the government had remained unchanged during the decades which have witnessed the extension of the railway and the telegraph, the virtual creation of the telephone and the birth of wireless telegraphy, with the appearance of the trusts, the rise of the Socialist party, and the advent of a radicalism such as had not been dreamed of in 1884. In this interval a stupendous economic and political transformation has taken place. Mr. Wilson declares that "Congress is predominant over its so-called...