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Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
...open doors of offices and studies, the shared bedrooms in colleges and boarding houses, the innumerable clubs and fraternal and patriotic associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well as laymen, consider that there is something odd, something suspect, in a young person who deliberately eschews company and chooses privacy or loneliness...
Have you ever sat in a railway station and watched people killing time? Do they not sit a little like crestfallen angels-with their broken arches and their fallen stomachs...
Died. Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey, 81, whose nondescript force of some 3,000 clerks, signalmen, and U.S. railway engineers prevented a breakthrough to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918; in Portsmouth, England. Moving quickly as the Germans threatened, Carey and his motley crew held out for six days until relieved. It earned him a personal commendation before Parliament from Prime Minister Lloyd George...
...plot of land was originally rented from the University by the Boston Elevated Railway around 1840. The company built the two-story structure to hold hay and equipment for the horse-barns then located across the street...