Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads accepted this national law (they secured certain guarantees of profits under it). But they have quarreled with shippers and other transportation users about the method of calculating their valuations. It takes far more money to construct a road in 1927 than it did in 1914. It might cost $140,000 now to replace completely a line that 13 years ago cost $100,000. So replacement value is the great quarreling point, because $7,000 profit is only 5% of $140,000, although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit...
...Capper Johnson '27, Ramsey Macdonald's "Reduction of Armaments-1924"; P.J. Booe '28, Victor Hugo's "The Death Penalty"; A.F. Reel; F. I. Kosen '29, Auslander's "Steel"; A.F. Reel '28, George F. Hoar's, "On Retaining the Philippine Islands"; H.M. Neuberge '27, Rudyard Kip;ing's "On the Road to Mandalay"; Eduardo Andrade '28, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"; L. Kosol '27, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe"; and H.A. Wolff '29 "Not Guilty", anonymous...
...technical organization work is being done by the Open Road, Inc., 2 West Forty-Sixth Street, New York City. The expense of each tour will be approximately...
...three men started from San Antonio over the concrete road to Austin, 89.4 miles away. Cool of dawn gave way to scorching heat of day as the runners loped easily along at a pace that would have frightened a Finn. After covering 30 miles Salido, sickened by fumes of automobiles which lined the road, succumbed to cramps; Zafiro and Torres, less sensitive, continued...
...matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...