Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock the cadets will again form, this time in front of Widener Memorial library, and march through the class of 1877 gate to Soldiers Field by way of Massachusetts Avenue, Bow Street, DeWolfe Street, John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge and the Charles River Road to gate...
...holdup, three bombings occupied the attention of Chicago police last week. Hold-Up. Into the gay, smoke-filled ball room of the Palm Gardens road house came six young men with familiar faces. It was their fifth visit. Dutifully the swaying guests lined up along a wall, dutifully handed over $1,700 in cash, $7,500 in jewelry. But eager to please, the "baron robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels...
...William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, the soap crutcher stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley Jr.-young Wrigley then-tired of developing his muscles in this way he persuaded his father to let him sell scouring soap on the road and before long was driving through the high-grass towns of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England in a four horse team with bells on the harness. He was a good salesman. When other manufacturers cut under his father's prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail...
With a $13,000,000 initial outlay he rebuilt the road from the ground up, put down heavy rails, built new stations, bought comfortable coaches, created an esprit de corps among employes, nine out of ten of whom bought company stock. He reduced the traveling time between...
Curious about international white slave traffic, Author Londres once lived with the traffickers, about whom he wrote The Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined...