Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth system...
Under the headings of Environment, Student Government, and Honor Systems, Religious Provisions and Agencies, and the like are grouped actual interviews with undergraduates of 23 colleges and universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...
...Wabash, Ind., Colonel Lindbergh invited Marilyn Lockwood, 9, for a flight. Chary, unimpressed, Marilyn demurred. "I never fly with anyone...
...magnates saw pregnant and disquieting possibilities. At Connellsville, the P. and W. Va. branch will connect with the Western Maryland road, forming what may develop into a new through route from Lake Erie and the steel producing country to Baltimore, via the Wheeling and Lake Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line? Magnates pondered...
...Wabash, however, has vast importance in the present flux of railroad mergers. And the inclusion of a potent newspaper owner...