Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railway ran but two trains a day, from Sobriety to Dead River or Perdition, and the advertisement states that "Accidents by Collisions are entirely avoided, as no uptrains are run over the road." The train left Sobriety at 5 o'clock and by 8 o'clock had passed through Sippington, Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium...
...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...
Even in 1850 there was anti-railroad legislation, for at the foot of the timetable is a notice. "At the request of Superintendent Alcohol, there will be a business meeting, by and by, of the stockholders and conductors of the road, to hear a report concerning liabilities under the Higher...
Docket number 45 will be the Gladstone Club (Rocheleau, Gendron) versus the Cooley Club (Waggenbach, Stauber). The meeting will be at 14 Summer Road with W. E. Hays 3L as chief justice...
...with which General Motors starts the contest. But he sees no limit to the markets over which the two motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...