Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads for defensive purposes in 1927 when eastern trunk lines were scrambling to enlarge their systems. Under the Commission's merger plan the Wabash and Lehigh Valley would be joined in a separate system combining the Wheeling & Lake Erie, Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western, Seaboard Air Line. Western Maryland, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...undergraduates may attend the class in the special exercise room of the new Indoor Athletic Building. The work, lead by Fradd, consists of heavy trunk-developing work on the mats and exercises on the stall bars...
...city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were...
...Helen Robbins, socialite wife of Herbert D. Robbins, retired Manhattan drug man (McKesson & Robbins), just home from Europe, approached a customs inspector who was about to examine her luggage. Said she: "There are twelve bottles of liquor in my trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why-why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston...
William Z. Ripley, professor of economics at Harvard, emeritus, and author of the preliminary plan for consolidation of the nation's railroad systems, has left Cambridge to confer with President Hoover. Professor Ripley, in an article published in World's Work today, states that consolidation in trunk-line territory is necessary if railroads are to continue to operate. It is understood that his conference with President Hoover had to do with his railroad merger plan...