Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad passenger traffic and revenue have declined steadily since 1923. While rail passenger-miles fell from 47 billion in 1920 to 16 billion in 1933, high-way passenger-miles rose from 28 to 191 billion...
When Henry Ford's Oscar II sailed out of New York Harbor one December day in 1915 to end the World War, its rail was lined with the most distinguished collection of naïve idealists the U. S. had laughed at in many a year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster...
...early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat...
Wells Fargo had found little trouble in getting its hands on Butterfield's Overland Mail line in 1861 or on its successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president...
...first seven lines of an acrostic continuing through Florida East Coast Railway, this verse was written by one J. B. Killegrew and included in a souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels...