Word: rails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lecture hall on the third floor go hundreds of enthusiastic students during the week from the schools of Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. Three steps lead up to the lecturer's oaken platform, and a hand railing stands next to the steps. It was built for Founder Welch, who was so rotund that he could not see beyond his middle, had to use the railing for a guide when he came to the edge of the platform and descended the steps. No need for a hand rail has energetic Dr. Sigerist who often takes the steps in one leap...
...Julius Heil has been working ever since. He manicured horses and waited on customers for a Wisconsin country storekeeper. He learned about machinery by running a drill press at 14 for International Harvester Co., about trolley cars by being a conductor in Milwaukee. He founded his own business, a rail joint welding company, in 1900 with the first $700 he saved. For ten years he paid himself only $2 a day, and often had to borrow from the neighborhood saloonkeeper to meet his payroll...
...Parliament refused to ratify his dealings with II Duce. Last week II Duce took occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa...
Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
...More rugged than Brazil's coastal slopes are the rocky volcanic upjuts that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled...