Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweringen brothers entered the steam railroad business in 1916 by purchasing the old "Nickel Plate" (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.) from the New York Central for $2,000,000 cash and $6,500,000 credit. Despite old Nickel Plate's official title, it possessed no real terminal facilities at New York, Chicago or St. Louis. To make something of the line, it consequently became necessary to expand it. First they went after and acquired (for $750,000 cash and $2,250,000 credit) the "Clover Leaf" (Toledo, St. Louis & Western), then in a receivership. Next, the brothers...
...something abstract, a kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders who prate about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first course in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and others "engineering", they are all parts of some field of science...
Work on the new Business School, which has hitherto consisted of filling in and levelling the land and of moving the few frame houses that formerly occupied part of the site, took an active and interesting turn yesterday morning, when a steam shovel appeared upon the scene and started excavations for the basements of the new buildings. Dean Donham of the Business School, who happened to be present at the start of the excavations, took charge of the shovel and operated it while the first bucketful of earth was removed...
...there comes a time when the last line is spoken and the heavy curtain from above descends unalterably. So it was at Clean, Scotland, that Death came to Mary Elizabeth Haldane, nee Sanderson. She had celebrated her 100th birthday but recently (TIME, May 4, EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest...
...consolidation movement in business has by no means been confined to the railroads. With less publicity, more actual headway has in point of fact been made of late with super-power projects than in the steam transportation...