Word: trunkful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
West. The Western revision, which applies only to Western Trunk Line Territory (bounded by Lake Michigan, Canada, the Rockies, Southern Kansas and Missouri), is in general a straight upward revision that will mean $12,000,000 more annual revenue to the Western trunk lines. Rates on certain agricultural commodities, however, were not raised. This is a negative application of the famed Hoch-Smith Resolution, whose positive application? which would mean actual lowering of present rates on farm products?was held unconstitutional in a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision. The Western rate structure has long been in need of revision...
Explaining the bill's size, he commented: "It is a long view plan for the future. It will require many years to complete. . . . [I propose] that we should approach the problem on sound engineering lines, completing the main trunk systems and gradually extending the work outward. . . . The bill does not call for any increase in the budget this year...
...Digging a 9-ft. channel up the Mississippi River (prime "main trunk system") from the mouth of the Illinois to Minneapolis & St. Paul; reaching a 6-ft. channel into the wheat country as far as Sioux City, Iowa, along the Mississippi's tributary, the Missouri...
...Evanston, Ill., Walter E. Bushman, a small man, appeared at the police station, asked several policemen to come home with him and persuade his 230-lb. wife to get off the top of his trunk so he could open and pack it, leave...
...Grateful, 75% of Ulen employees accepted the offer, made Lebanon the Ulen capital. But not midwestern are Ulen & Co. activities: Ulen engineers today are work ing upon three dams in Chile, a $23,000,000 land-reclamation project in northern Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city...