Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Average length of all U. S. freight trains is 47 cars. But trains longer than 70 cars are the rule in large homogeneous shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that...
...Westport for the summer. Shows which open in the Mt. Kisco theatre will play their second week in the Country Playhouse. Mt. Kisco's and Westport's weekly bills this summer will be something for cinemaddicts as well as theatregoers to see. Henry Fonda will enact The Virginian, Phillips Holmes and Frances Farmer will do The Petrified Forest, following the opening of Eva LeGallienne, on three-year holiday from the Manhattan stage, in Mirandolina...
...Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull of Tennessee. . . . Mrs. Earle . . . a daughter of the Blue Grass State of Kentucky...
Married. David Field Beatty. Earl Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby, 32, son & heir of the Wartime British Admiral of the Fleet, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Marshall Field; and Mrs. Dorothy Power Sands. 34, once-widowed, once-divorced Virginian ; in London's Guildhall. His mother, the late Ethel Field Beatty, left...
...defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying to his rescue before the polar sun came up, the slight Virginian noted in his diary: "The distance and detachment of this place seem to soften human follies. Others take on added significance. But from here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. It seems a great madness. If this attitude...