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Dates: during 1930-1939
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traveled across the Balkan Peninsula in his royal train to hunt ducks with Yugoslavia's King Peter...
Announced Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives: "Not a single passenger was killed in an accident on a train during 1935. . . . This is the first time the railroads have achieved a perfect record...
Cattle-road was Bellevue & Cascade of Iowa which operated, intermittently, 35.7 miles of track. Bellevue & Cascade had only one locomotive, a 50-year-oldster whose axle broke in 1934. Since that accident, claimed angry farmers, the train jumped the track so often and killed so many cattle that no farmer would ship livestock on it. The Interstate Commerce Commission gave permission for the mileage to be abandoned...
...Golden Gleam appeared in the U. S. in 1932. Neither a fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
...awhile as if we had something on President Roosevelt; he was scheduled to take a degree at Temple University, Philadelphia, on Saturday afternoon, February 22, then attend the Fly Club dinner that evening. It turns out that he gets the degree in the morning, a special through-routed train making Cambridge by evening...