Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hubbard arrived in New York last week on the Homeric. He had expected to be back at college by the beginning of October in order to join the football coaching staff but delays in his rail trip back to Cape Town from Portuguese East Africa held him up. He stated that the transportation from Cape Town up the East Coast, a distance of 2000 miles, was so slow and primitively organized as to preclude his remaining with his brother more than a week. The rest of the summer was spent on route...
...unpleasant to climb through the top of the ZR-3's passenger cabin to the "cat-walk" running through the bottom of the hull? which provides only an 8-inch footing and 2-foot rail room at the top? for a walk that must be solitary and executed with great caution...
...they bolted, Major August Belmont's Ladkin on the rail, then Epinard, then Wise Counsellor (Epinard's conqueror at Belmont Park on Labor Day), then Zev, Little Chief, My Own. Sweeping the turn, streaking down the backstretch, Epinard's chestnut head showed the way. Inch by inch Wise Counsellor moved up-abreast, ahead. Came Ladkin farther out, little by little; then he too was ahead. On the turn Epinard was seen to slow up, veer right, flatten out again in a dash for the outside after losing four lengths. Jockey Haynes had feared a "pocketing...
...readjust and lower rail and water rates...
Henry Ford recently took 10,000 tons of fine finished sheets. Cast iron pipe bookings are good; in the Chicago district they exceed output. Rail orders are also appearing...