Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come our way, squashing dead and wounded, we see a man with a hose spouting liquid fire. "He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front...
...horse meat supply comes partly from antique city horses, but also from wild horses which roam the western plains. Most famed Wild-Horse-Catcher is one Carl Skelton, who last week was conducting a great wild horse round-up along the Missouri River in Cascade County, Montana. Catcher Skelton is a onetime cineman who supported Cinemactor Buck Jones in pictures professionally known as "Westerns." He is also remembered by attendants at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already...
Tangible evidence of U. S. railroad prosperity is progress in electrification of U. S. railroads. Following one such evidence last November (TIME, Nov. 12) in announcement that Pennsylvania Railroad would spend $100,000,000 in electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles of track over 78 miles of road. Electrification will not include Lackawanna's main Buffalo-Manhattan line but will be confined to short branch lines, particularly the Morris & Essex division from Hoboken to Dover...
...large coastal line on the Pacific, and a stretch of mountainous country in between. South of Guatemala lies Salvador, which is a comparatively narrow strip of country along the Pacific, big Honduras shutting it off on the Caribbean side. In eastern Guatemala the principal product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador is Indian or half-breed and, though Guatemala City has been called the Paris of America, neither country can well escape being classed among backward nations...
...Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present...