The International Year BookDodd, Mead, 1908 |
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... RAILWAY COMPANY . LAY- ING THE TRACKS OF A NEW PHILIPPINE RAILWAY . 618 ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE 676 THE FALLS OF THE ZAMBESI . THE ZAMBESI RAILROAD BRIDGE 682 AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS 702 • • WORKS OF SAINT GAUDENS THE Lusitania THE ...
... RAILWAY COMPANY . LAY- ING THE TRACKS OF A NEW PHILIPPINE RAILWAY . 618 ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE 676 THE FALLS OF THE ZAMBESI . THE ZAMBESI RAILROAD BRIDGE 682 AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS 702 • • WORKS OF SAINT GAUDENS THE Lusitania THE ...
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... railway terminus , and Kushk , the Russian railway terminus , is a little under 450 miles . If this 450 miles across Afghanistan was bridged there would be through railway connection between Paris and Calcutta . " GOVERNMENT . The Ameer ...
... railway terminus , and Kushk , the Russian railway terminus , is a little under 450 miles . If this 450 miles across Afghanistan was bridged there would be through railway connection between Paris and Calcutta . " GOVERNMENT . The Ameer ...
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... railway problems of the region . In regard to the fiscal problem , there were already in the field the suggestion of ... RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION . The British took the most efficient measures in the construction of railways in Africa during ...
... railway problems of the region . In regard to the fiscal problem , there were already in the field the suggestion of ... RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION . The British took the most efficient measures in the construction of railways in Africa during ...
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... Railway . As one of Cecil Rhodes Imperial schemes , this is intended to be the trunk line of the future continental system , the other lines , such as that across the Sahara and that across the Continent , starting from British East ...
... Railway . As one of Cecil Rhodes Imperial schemes , this is intended to be the trunk line of the future continental system , the other lines , such as that across the Sahara and that across the Continent , starting from British East ...
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... Railway on the Seward Peninsula , the Nome and Arctic Railway extended its line from Nome to Shelton , making a total of 95 miles in operation by this line ; the Alaska Central Railway expected to have 75 miles of its line completed by ...
... Railway on the Seward Peninsula , the Nome and Arctic Railway extended its line from Nome to Shelton , making a total of 95 miles in operation by this line ; the Alaska Central Railway expected to have 75 miles of its line completed by ...
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Page 247 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 408 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota...
Page 408 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract, exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 271 - That it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any territory or the District of Columbia any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act...
Page 383 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign Government to its citizens or subjects to go to any country other than the United States, or to any insular possession of the United States...
Page 378 - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session.
Page 205 - Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty...
Page 346 - That the Prime Ministers of the Colonies respectfully urge on His Majesty's Government the expediency of granting in the United Kingdom preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the Colonies, either by exemption from or reduction of duties now or hereafter imposed.
Page 180 - Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50. and 100 francs. Silver: 5 francs. Gold: 5, 10. and 20 marks.
Page 389 - India and elsewhere, shall be subject to the control of the Secretary of State in Council, and no grant or appropriation of any part of such revenues...