Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upkeep of the canal, there is hardly sufficient market at present to fund the installation of the new power plants, let alone large enough profit to create a surplus for the support of the proposed waterway. It is cheaper to produce power in New York by coal and steam, than to wire it south from the St. Lawrence valley...
...them were out here waiting. The second one thought he could gyp in ahead of the first; so he cut in. The other backed up to let him get to the curb. They were both next to the curb when the one in back got up full steam and crashed into the other. This one backed right back at him and this process went on until finally both got out and started using their fists. In the meantime three other taxis had received leads and two more still had cruised up to the stand...
...railroads also continued to build. Their new line construction in 1933 totaled 24.24 mi., smallest since the first steam road was built 102 years ago. Of this total 11 mi. were 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...
...orders for about 350, last year 942. And in those two years the railroads built only 2,300 in their own shops. In 1929 the railroads ordered 2.303 passenger cars, last year six. But since the first of 1934, New York, Chicago & St. Louis has ordered as many steam locomotives (20) as all railroads ordered in the last two years. Last week Chesapeake & Ohio fired at the car-builders in one $17,000,000 salvo orders for 7,808 freight cars-more than four times as many as were ordered all last year. Erie boomed in with orders...
...steam...