Word: connections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...command to build was issued by the I.C.C. at the request of the Oregon Public Service Commission and over the protest of the Union Pacific. The new line would connect Crane, Ore., on the Oregon Short Line (subsidiary of Union Pacific) with Crescent Lake, Ore., on the Southern Pacific. Its proponents declare that it will open up a potentially rich region in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, while its railroad opponents see the new line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well...
...Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...
...Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question of the new line is the Southern Pacific, backed by its ally, the Union Pacific...
...race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
...allotted mile sec tions each. Soldiers were put to work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little attention to each other. When the eight single miles of road were finished they failed to connect, some sections by as much as ten feet. Despite the fact that 108 of the Chinese peasants that Sun Yat-sen had lived for committed suicide when their homes were confiscated, the eight contractors condemned more land, tore down more houses to straighten the roadway. One of the new houses...