Word: right-of-way
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Nine years ago Dr. Coffey became chief surgeon of Southern Pacific R. R. That job made him the boss doctor of all the railroad's employes. It also made him the public health supervisor of all the communities which Southern Pacific created and fostered along its right-of-way. And the loyalties of all those people made Dr. Coffey a most important doctor in the State of California...
...gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains travel only about 10 m.p.h., take three full days to make the trip. Pride of the line is the Addis Ababa flyer, a weekly express that in the dry season covers...
Sitting up in bed with his morning paper, President Roosevelt found a nasty story glaring him in the face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
...Scotch Plains, N. J., John Crempa, Belgian War veteran, began the second major engagement of a one-man war against Public Service Gas & Electric Co. Eight years ago the company had part of his property condemned for a right-of-way for its power lines. He demanded $100,000. Eight hundred dollars were offered. In revenge he short-circuited the lines, costing the company a good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused...
...indisputable right-of-way through Soviet life belongs to the production of farm goods, industrial goods and children. When a child succeeds in getting born his after-care is guaranteed by the state. Mothers are encouraged to have their children nurtured and trained by the state. Working women, and 70% of Soviet women between the ages of 18 and 45 do work, place their children in day nurseries. Among the Soviets these institutions serve as quotidian orphan asylums. When a woman brings her child to a nursery for keeping while she works, the child is given a physical examination...