Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President Daniel ("Uncle...
...ought to make a try for the topotypes, so gathered our blankets and provisions, reaching the place after a rather rough passage of a day and a night. We had an interesting time and secured most everything we went for. . . Together we turned over most of the loose rock on the island and after much search secured 16 species of reptiles, including, as near as we can tell from Waite's Reptiles of Southern Australia, all the topotype species at least--several geckos, two legless lizards, spring and long-tailed egernias, Amphibolurus, the small python which is common there...
...Rochester, N. Y., many a suicide has jumped from the high bridge over the Genesee River into the rock-strewn waters far below. Coroners call it "Suicide Bridge." Next month Rochester will dedicate a new bridge, hoping to keep its name clean. Under his office door one day lately Coroner Richard Anthony...
Construction statistics on the dam ran into dazzling figures, difficult problems. Over 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock were removed from the river and nearby quarries. Eight and one-half miles of railroad track were raised without stopping traffic. Four thousand men were employed at one time in the work. The dam is 92 feet high and with the power house extends more than a mile in length...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, another major carrier, changed its policy last week, omitted dividends due on both classes of preferred stock. It was the first interruption of these dividends since the stocks were issued in 1917. Said Banker Charles Hayden, chairman: "It is the belief of the board that the best dividend that could be paid to preferred stockholders at this time is to keep the company in strong financial position...