Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...below the picture on p. 14, TIME, Nov. 25? It should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the private waiting room of one of Berlin's railroad stations (Stettiner Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual meeting of Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor Wilhelm, which...
...year's time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago as a clerk, was advanced to the head of the Commission to succeed Ernest Irving Lewis. Chairman McManamy will need all his knowledge-and experience as a practical railroad man to cope with the task assigned him, because last week the Commission adopted and published its long-delayed plan for consolidating U. S. railroads. Eight years in the making, the I. C. C. plan is likely to take at least as long to execute...
Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but left for another time any attempt to get its 19 systems off paper and into operation...
...farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture compiled final estimates of crop values for the year. Significant figures...
...King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings...