Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself in an electric cabinet...
...this reason that the Vagabond only yesterday tasked himself with unpacking the casteroed hair-trunk which arrived a week ago from the sequestered loneliness of his cabin on the heights of Monadnock. Among the tobacco tins and books he found one small red box. It bore the legend "Salome: Gold Tipped," and in the tinfoil lining there was a stale, forgotten cigarette, still slightly fragrant with rose...
...action sunk another large milestone along the way to consolidation of the country's carriers into a few strong trunk-line systems. A dozen years have passed since rail mergers came to the fore as a major problem of U. S. Transportation. At least another dozen must pass before the question can be called settled. Past milestones...
...modifications of the Big Four's own program. In its 1929 plan the I. C. C. had ordered a fifth East ern system to be composed of the Wabash, the Seaboard Air Line and a rag-tag-bobtail lot of small lines. Because no body advocated such a fifth trunk line, because both Wabash and Seaboard are in receivership, the I. C. C. dropped the idea and consented to a four-way division. The Seaboard was left to the South, the other lines were parcelled out among the Big Four...
When in 1922 Prime Minister King picked Sir Henry to take over the management of the 22,000 mi. of track (Grand Trunk Pacific, Grand Trunk, Canadian Northern, Transcontinental, Intercolonial) which had fallen into Canada's not welcoming hands, he seemed the only man for the job. His past record was filled with superb successes, his genial personality made him seem just the right man for a position which carried with it much contact with politicians. Last week Sir Henry's downfall was being discussed in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. It was easy for one side...