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...story of the C. P. R.'s construction is one of railroading's most spacious epics. In many Canadian schoolrooms hang pictures of the driving of the last C. P. R. spike at Craigellachie, B. C., on Nov. 7, 1885. Symbolizing the hardships the road went through, the last spike was iron, not gold. And every man who went to see it driven paid full fare...
...Dupertuis 3M., J. F. Fitchen, III 4S.A., E. A. Grant '32, H. H. Hall 2G, Louis Harap 3G, W. M. Jewell '27, R. L. Kirkpatrick '31, J. J. McCarthy 1G, C. W. Nichols 3S. L.A., J. L. Noyes '34, H. C. Schmidt '32, D. V. Smith '33, J. E. Spike 2G, M. B. Storer 1G, P. W. Turrentine 4G, A. S. Twombly 3E. T. S., H. D. Ursell 1G, E. F. Wahlstrom 1G, and J. B. Woodworth...
...Madison Square Garden, Jim Londos humped an enormous torso shaped like a single pile of white dough and topped with a tiny spike of head, wrapped his arms around Jim McMillen, U. S. wrestler who once played with Red Grange on Illinois' football team. For 56 minutes, 54 seconds they grunted, sweated, flopped with terrific thuds on the canvas. Once Londos threw McMillen out of the ring. Then McMillen slipped Londos through the ropes. Then both fell down into the press bench, were helped in again, resumed grappling. At last Londos picked up McMillen, slapped him down, rolled...
...businessmen who are laying out the nation's passenger airlines have not yet devised any rite for the opening of a new line comparable to the railroad rite of Driving the Golden Spike.∙At the opening last week of one more new artery of air travel-Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular...
Instead of spike-driving, these two gentlemen and a convivial party of 58- including Postmaster General Brown, Superintendent Earl Wadsworth of the U. S. airmail service, Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...