Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders, and, through them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideals of administration into living realities," he continued, making his fundamental object the improvement of public administration through making the government service popular as a life's vocation...
...track team has its first dual meet of the season today when it meets Dartmouth at Hanover. The team left by train for New Hampshire yesterday at 4:30 o'clock expecting a tight meet with the Green...
...wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted; 2) It may be possible to train and improve the particular mental abilities in which an individual is weak...
...which had required 30 months of litigation, 17,205 pages of testimony transcript, California's Railroad Commission gave Santa Fe Transportation Co. authority to inaugurate passenger service between San Diego and San Francisco, with a basic fare rate of 1½?-per-mile and tickets interchangeable between streamlined trains and air-cooled busses. Wherever Santa Fe train and bus lines meet, the passenger will be free to transfer from one to the other. The Santa Fe train-&-bus relay will carry passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in nine hours and 35 minutes, which is faster than present...
...example of Government control of transportation, the Commission's reason for making it harks back to Adam Smith. The report pointed out that California is an area where millions travel by private automobile; that if only 7% to 8% of the motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...