Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four Powers. Perhaps the general outline of the eastern railroad situation is most clearly seen through an analogy between the pre-war Balance of Power in Europe and the present Balance of Power between the rail systems east of the Mississippi...
Comparable to pre-War England, France, Russia and Germany are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when...
...large, round sum is two billions, difficult to comprehend. Not until the U. S. entered the World War did Congress appropriate as much as two billions per annum to run the Government. As recently as 1900 there were only two billions of U. S. currency in circulation...
...nothing of its own quite like Chevalier. He effervesces songs and, with fleeting pantomime, gives them the quality of fine etchings slightly caricatured. Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows. The Paris music-halls have given him a touch of rowdiness. The War, in which he was wounded and captured, left him with unbridled spontaneity...
...Chevalier costume?un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat ? is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun. . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...