Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical score written on the spur of the moment by Virgil Thomson, is ready now and will be played during the play by undergraduates in the Music Department...
...explain the Smith retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference...
...built by the Virginian as the last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every mile post (TIME, Oct. 23). A Federal Court ruled that the Montour spur was no common carrier but a private Mellon carrier, used only by Pittsburgh Coal...
...until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
Under the spur of hard times and the public chant of "It's your own fault." U. S. railroads have lately emerged in the unfamiliar role of expert merchandisers. They have invoked the ancient principle of price-cutting to get business. They are building trains which seem to have been conceived in the fanciful pages of Popular Mechanics. And some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them. Led by Pennsylvania R. R., a group of eastern carriers went to their customers last week with a collection...