Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement came almost exactly on the hundredth anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...
...protests similar to that of Subscriber Guthe have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as "... ripe fruit juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
...Pony Express. Paramount has been advertising for some time this picture as a "western epic" and the sequel to The Covered Wagon. James Cruze who directed that unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest...
...CHICKEN-WAGON FAMILY?Barry Benefleld?Century...
...York City are horse drawn. . . Haulage in New York is now on a time, not a mile, basis, due to the extreme congestion of traffic. . . It costs 6? per minute to operate a five-ton truck in the city, and only 2? a minute for a team and wagon of the same capacity. . . The matter of length of service also has an important bearing on this problem. The initial cost of a motor truck is three times as much as a team and outfit, with a depreciation of 25 per cent to 33 per cent, which gives it only from...