Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter. Busy, he bustled through the most pressing business, put aside his speech, got his friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station, massed battalions of Democracy seethed to glimpse an Al arrayed in black. Up Michigan Boulevard sped a strangely guarded Al-dozens of motorcycle police, five detectives, three machine guns. Columns of people lined the streets, blackened...
...lost his own right leg when he, 13, substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Ill. He tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train; his right foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
Thirty-six years ago, when Calvin Coolidge was a countrified freshman at Amherst, a train of cars creaked down from the Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world...
...train with President Coolidge rode Pentecost Mitchell of Duluth, whose father organized the first mining company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners...
England, the cradle of the Railway, is still served by world's fastest non-stop trains. Last week, England's first regularly operating sleeping-bus service, a rival of its railways, began operation. Twelve sleepers rumbled out of Newcastle in the premiere sleeping-bus, which made the 254-mile run to London before breakfast time. On the way the bus stopped at Darlington Station from which, in 1825, chuffed forth the first steam train. Each sleeper was served "early morning tea" in his sleeping-berth...