Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faster than Twentieth Century (54.1 m.p.h.), faster than the Broadway Limited (51.2 m.p.h.), faster than the Burlington's famed Zephyr (49.5 m.p.h.) was the train that Chicago & North Western Ry, sent over the rails between Chicago and Minneapolis last week. Called The 400 because it covers 400 miles in 400 minutes, North Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered...
...Fitzgerald Hall of Nashville wanted to be a doctor. Instead he became a lawyer, was for 14 years general counsel of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. Last week he became a railroad president when N. C. & St. L.'s directors elected him to succeed James Brents Hill, who was summoned to the presidency of N. C. & St. L.'s parent company, Louisville & Nashville...
Trouble started in September when Louisville & Nashville R. R. decided to route its Chicago-Florida passenger business over Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. ("Big Four") instead of over Chicago & Eastern Illinois'. It had been doing business with C. & E. I. for half, a century, had run its crack Southern trains over the C. & E. I. route since 1904. But C. & E. I. is now in financial distress and reputedly has difficulty getting Pullman Co.'s best equipment for through sleeper service to Florida. Big Four, as a New York Central subsidiary, gets the very best. Both lines run from...
Boarding a special train last week in Washington with Postmaster General Farley and Senator Glass, President Roosevelt swung down the Southern Ry.'s main line through central Virginia. Governor Peery was picked up as the special passed through Senator Glass's Lynchburg and by the time lunch was over the Presidential party was at Roanoke...
...regularly through the dry years by making near-beer, yeast, malt and corn syrups, truck bodies, cabinets, Bevo, ice-cream, ginger ale, Diesel engines for U. S. submarines. Other interests include a local coal company, the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Tex. and the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. whose valuation case in the Supreme Court made railroad history. August Busch died by his own hand two months after Repeal (TIME, Feb. 19). Adolphus Busch III is now head of the House...