Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroads. Though passenger traffic on Class I railroads (184 main trunk lines) was the smallest in the last 20 years, freight traffic increased ½ to 1% and by cutting operating expenses most roads showed larger earnings per share in spite of many decreases in gross income. These roads reported net operating income of approximately $1,200,000,000, a return of 4.71% on their property investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio...
...escape from the submerged 54, the men had first climbed up into a barrel-like chamber on the deck called the "trunk." A door in the "trunk's" bottom was closed, water was valved in to equalize pressure, an outer hatch was opened and the "survivors," in bathing suits and "lungs," rose swiftly through 40 feet of water...
...When the ordinary U. S. citizen thinks of expressing a package or trunk, he may well be excused for thinking of Adams Express or American Express. Yet the arrival of a trunk at either the Adams offices (61 Broadway) or the American offices (65 Broadway) would probably be greeted with surprise rather than with interest. For both Adams and American are now holding companies. The actual operating express company is American Railway Express. It is American Railway Express whose functions the new Railway Express will take over on March...
...hasty interview yesterday afternoon shortly before his departure for New York, Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, explained to a CRIMSON reporter the nature of his recent startling find of between 1,000 and 2,000 Washington documents in an old hair trunk in the attic of a farm-house near Mt. Vernon...
...United States Commission for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, of which he is one of the seven presidential commissioners. While there he was invited by Henry Woodhouse, a collector of Washington materials, to accompany him to Mt. Vernon where the old trunk was at the home of one of Betty Lewis's descendants. On the way back to Washington Porfessor Hart looked at one of the packages and found in it about 90 memorandums by Washing- ton's sister. Judging from the number of miscellaneous notations, be believes that when...