Word: right-of-way
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...they plan to get their electricity from Cove Creek Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed power plant on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The Cincinnati Southern, municipally-owned railway, passes within 10 mi. of the proposed dam-site. Transmission lines could be cheaply strung along the right-of-way into Cincinnati where current would be distributed by a publicly-owned system...
...been laid. Fortnight ago Judge West of the U. S. District Court in Cleveland denied Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson a permanent injunction. ''It is true that some deception, or at least sharp practices, were resorted to by the defendant [ Pittsburgh Coal] to secure portions of the right-of-way," observed Judge West, "but the enterprise must be looked upon as a private venture. While the plaintiffs strongly suspected otherwise, they were unable to bring proof to the contrary." Last week the 200 laborers once more laid hands to pick & shovel. The Mellons would soon be hauling their own coal...
...might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond, where they played with worn-out canvas gloves and three damaged bats, was equally reassuring. Then the boys saw something else. A washout had completely carried away the ballast from under a section of track on the nearby Erie R. R. right-of-way! Aware that an 8:10 commuting train was soon due, the boys pulled off their raincoats, ran down the track waving them wildly. The engineer...
...locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when he had had a mining engineer's job on the Comstock in 1895. Before the train snorted on, Messrs. Hoover and Mills and Mrs. Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover...
Because it was revenue legislation the beer bill was given right-of-way in the House this week. Speaker Garner promised both sides ample time to debate it, ample opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...