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crashed into a ravine near Danville in 1903. The Southern Railway's "mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville" had since been shifted, and the exact spot where the engineer...
...Look of Satisfaction. "Although railway administrations of both Dominions have doggedly tried to keep a skeleton schedule going, they have now given up. For days on end no trains arrived in Delhi without having been attacked and looted practically all along the route...
...bathing suits. "We Have Nothing to Hide," said their placards, "Do We Need Padding?" At Valdosta, Ga., businessmen joined the fun, chartered the League of Broke Husbands, went picketing, too. A Georgia legislator announced that he would soon introduce a bill banning long skirts. Detroit's street-railway boss declared that long skirts made the boarding of streetcars hazardous...
...Bill") Dickman, 34, who visited the U.S. consular office on the twelfth floor of Vancouver's Marine Building one day last week. What Bill Dickman wanted was a "job with a future." For four years during the depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...