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Between the Hudson and the Mississippi, the Potomac and the Great Lakes lies the richest rail realm of the U. S. Through its fat fields, between its teeming towns, over and around its coal-laden mountains criss-cross some 57,000 miles of trackage (one-fifth of the nation's total) valued at ten billion dollars (almost one-half the nation's total). Three hundred lines, long & short, in this area serve 52 million people, bind together eight of the ten largest U. S. cities, with shiny roadways to the sea and world markets. For generations this empire has been...
...have your telegram. . . . I am deeply grateful. . . . I shall labor as I have labored to meet the effects of the world-wide storm which has devastated us with trials and sufferings unequaled in but few [sic] of our history. . . . Beyond platforms and measures lies that sacred realm of ideals, of hopes, of aspirations, those things of the spirit which make the greatness and the soul of the nation. These are our objectives and with unceasing effort, with courage and faith in Almighty God, they will be attained...
...would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there is an excellent opportunity for a group of ambititious young men, who would take the whole University as their realm, who would be read by graduates and instructors, and be eager to accept contributions from graduates and instructors, to fill an empty niche. William Harlan Hale has shown the way, Bernard DeVoto has set imitable standards, and there are those who are only waiting to welcome the ambitious young...
...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...