Word: railways
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...camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just as logically, "Uncle Fred" Delano's commission returned to Geneva and recommended that one good way to prevent the world's being flooded by Persian opium was to build the Persians a railway so they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran...
...Duke this week wrote an impassioned letter to the London Times, disclosing that two reporters had tried to climb into his house through a window to get a look at King Leopold, had sought to enter His Majesty's railway compartment, had rung up in "bad French" on the telephone. "To what depths," wrote the Duke of Portland, "have certain members of the press descended...
...Land: As darkness settled down on the little Scots hamlet of Castlecary late one afternoon last week, the local train from Dundee pulled into the London & North Eastern Railway station. Around it swirled a December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
Indiana--Secretary, Howard P. Travis '27, Railway Exchange Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana...
...Vice Premier, and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Later, stopping at the Ritz in London, he had long talks with pro-French British bigwigs such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Robert Vansittart, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. Last week, 5,000 Rumanians jampacked Bucharest's dingy railway station, flaunted banners reading "Long Live Titulescu...