Word: strengtheners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aside, there are three railroads which could make good use of the Denver & Salt Lake and its tunnel: 1) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 2) Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 3) Denver & Rio Grande Western. The Rock Island and the Burlington, with lines from Chicago out to Denver, would both like to strengthen their transcontinental connections at their western ends by acquiring the Moffat tunnel. The Denver & Rio Grande Western is the most directly interested in the tunnel. Since it runs from Denver to Salt Lake City, the 175-mile saving would be made on its line. At present, in order to reach...
...Trustees of Columbia University have for two generations past done everything which the means at their disposal would permit to advance the academic career and to sustain it on a constantly higher level of opportunity and satisfaction. To strengthen the academic career and to make it still more attractive to young men and young women of good ability and fine ambition, means doing three distinct things, as well as doing them quickly and well...
...enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...
...addition to its carrier service (in which it has a virtual monopoly) Pullman also engages in the manufacture and sale of passenger and freight cars. Last week it arranged to strengthen its dominant position in this field by absorbing Standard Steel Car Co. and its affiliated Osgood-Bradley Car Co. From this merger Pullman would diversify its production to include street railway cars, steel forgings, grey iron castings, as well as increase its railroad car production...