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...electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road with enormous coal tonnage, is proud of a ratio between outgo and intake on operations...
...Automobile Show in the U. S. was held in Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden in 1900. Most models were foreign-built and all were equipped with tillers instead of steering wheels. Steamers and electrics were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
...know," said Huey Long as he took train back to Washington, "that was one of the easiest audiences I ever won over. I could take this State like a whirlwind. What I did in Louisiana is nothing compared to what I could do in Iowa...
...Golden Miller that the odds against him were only 2-to-1. lowest in Grand National history. Turf experts estimated that British bookmakers would lose $9,600,000 if Golden Miller won. The knot of people at the first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller taking the jump perfectly...