Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract to build the first subway on the West coast of South America was secured, last week, by Don Luis Lagar-rigue, potent Chilean engineer. For the sum of $2,200,000 he will lay 30 blocks of subway under Santiago's famed avenue, the Alameda de las Delicias...
...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
They wanted a 7? fare. So sure were they that a 7? fare would some day become effective that last week they had in readiness millions of 7? slugs to be distributed among subway-riding Manhattanites, Brooklynites...
...decision brought political joy because he had championed the nickel fare. To Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes it brought legal melancholy because he had drawn up the I. R. T. brief. On Wall Street, I. R. T. stocks dropped 20 points in about the time that it takes a subway train to rush from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
Illinois Central's Locomotor. It looks like an interurban or subway electric car, but is a combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily...