Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from $1,000,000,000 to $300,000,000. The I.C.C also pointed out that most of the Western roads are already operating under a 2?-a-mile fare, that many Southern roads charge only 1.5? a mile. It cited the recent experience of the Southern Railway and the Seaboard Airline to show how lower rates had increased passenger revenue and turned a Seaboard passenger deficit into a passenger profit. The I.C.C. admitted that Eastern carriers were not running as many nearly empty coaches and Pullmans as Southern roads but argued that there was still plenty of room for more...
...last week the Eastern seaboard of the U. S. from North Carolina to Maine tingled fearfully to such news dispatches as the following...
That the disease now raising fears along the Eastern seaboard may not be infantile paralysis at all is a medical thought that has been trying to intrude itself for the past several weeks. Last week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There...
Last week near Camden, S. C. a farmer's truck with nine occupants reached a railroad crossing simultaneously with a Seaboard Air Line express. Five were killed instantly; three died later in a hospital...
Railroadman Harahan had been too long in the business to retire in a fit of pique. Once messenger and clerk on the Louisville & Nashville, he became general manager of Illinois Central in 1904. From there he went to Erie as assistant to the president, later to Seaboard Air Line which he headed for six years and, finally, to C. & O. as president. When the Van Sweringens invited him to stay on as senior vice president under Mr. Bernet he swallowed his pride and accepted...