Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the bonds of the railroad companies has poured a torrent of funds seeking, above all else, security of principal. Capitalists, wage-earners, fiduciary trustees and savings banks alike have found in rail bonds a safe haven for their money and a fair return thereon. But the Depression of today by its length and severity has shattered the standards of other times, undermined the confidence of generations. Quick cause for this undermining came when the railroads appealed en masse last winter to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% increase in freight rates, on the ground that unless this...
Housewreckers dissecting a brick wall in San Francisco lately found riveted to it a large memorial plaque of marble. Carved thereon were three marble dogs, two crouched beside, one perched on top of an old time safe. Below them was graven this testimonial: ". . . To the memory of three Dogs, JACK, FIDO, & TIP. In life they were intelligent, noble, and affectionate, and were cruelly poisoned by Burglars, and nobly perished at the post of duty...
There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong...
...Philadelphia, the will of Wilson E. Stroudt bequeathed to his sister-in-law Mrs. Charles L. Stroudt "all that parcel of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all the trees and everything thereon"; to her son "the four winds of the earth, that he may enjoy them the same as I have"; to the person who buried him all that remained of his estate after funeral expenses were paid. Mrs. Stroudt buried him, received...