Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well as permit new railroad construction?will probably cause the Union Pacific to take the case into the courts. The Commission itself was not all sure, split 7 to 4 on the question. Dissenters were Commissioners Brainerd, Farrell, Porter, Woodlock...
Freshman Coach Pratt and Captain Putnam outlined the preliminary plans to the assembled Freshmen. The men will split practice sessions with the University squad today and Thursday and put in a full day's work tomorrow. Since the first game comes shortly after the holidays Coach Pratt will be forced to cut the squad before the vacation...
...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...
...Must One Die?" With no sure majority anywhere and with party leaders sulky, it was necessary to appeal to the whole Chamber?Right, Center and Left ?in an effort to split or stampede blocks and groups. As a keen, go-getting logician fond of dates and statistics, M. Tardieu knew that he could not depend on himself to kindle and fire the Deputies. He left the ignition to great Aristide Briand, Europe's supreme Parliamentarian...
Equitable Trust Co., recent absorber of Seaboard National Bank, voted to increase its capital by $44,000,000 of which $25,000,000 will be used to establish a securities affiliate. After a split-up, Equitable will apply to have its shares removed from the New York Stock Exchange...