Word: railways
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That night the candidate was driven back to the railway yards. The Victory Special rolled home to Albany. There was just one more week...
...including international relations) came to be held together by screws, bolts and nuts. Their shape and kind were in chaos. In 1861 the Franklin Institute got together a group of engineers who adopted the design of William Sellers as the standard U.S. screw thread. Without it, the unified U.S. railway system could hardly have been built...
...People v. the Interests. The train hurtled across Pennsylvania, pausing at Pittsburgh. At Crestline, Ohio, the President told 1,500 railway workers and families that he was "saddened and shocked" by the death of Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...
...railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful nor ornamental...
Wounded Moose. Such evidences of ancient rancor could not dislodge the railroads from their secure place in U.S. affections. U.S. citizens are pridefully aware that their railway system is the world's greatest. Their tracks are the nation's sinews, their story part of the nation's legend...