Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average...
...produces annually 10,000,000 bags (100 Ib. per bag). Charles Boettcher is vice president and member of the executive committee. His son Claude Kedzie Boettcher is a Great Western director as well as board chairman of the $24,000,000 Denver National Bank and of the Denver & Intermountain Ry. Charles 2nd, Claude's son, operates a brokerage firm...
...Recent rains in South Dakota were cause for excitement at the stockholders' meeting of Chicago & North Western Ry. Drought and a grasshopper plague had combined with Depression to push North Western's deficit to $11,216,000 in 1932. Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...
...rich, radical Senator Couzens, the ensuing commotion in Washington would have been deafening. Yet 500 miles to the north on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, last week, approximately the same set of facts was revealed without any Dominion-shaking uproar. Edward Wentworth Beatty, blunt, ready-tongued head of Canadian Pacific Ry., had testified before the House of Commons Banking & Currency Committee that in order to obtain $60,000,000 in bank loans, he had been forced to ask the Prime Minister for a Government guarantee of principal & interest. Bond issues and old bank loans were coming due and the New York...
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