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Example sentences for "railroad company"

  • He has had experience as a shipper and as a railroad promoter, owner and stockholder, and has even had thrust upon him for a short time the responsibility of a director, president and manager of a railroad company.

  • It likewise subjects such officers and employes of a railroad company as may be guilty of aiding or abetting in violations of the act to fines not exceeding $5,000 for each offense.

  • At another time while the judge was defending a railroad company in a damage suit involving a large amount of money a colored man had sworn positively to facts in a case which everyone thought he knew nothing about.

  • It looks upon the south and west as destitute of men competent to organize a railroad company, or to procure means for the construction of railroads, or to construct them when the capital has been obtained.

  • What is your official connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company?

  • I believe something was said about the railroad company--that it would have to pay the men, as no provision was made by the city for their pay.

  • State where you reside and what your official connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is?

  • A majority of the commissioners were mere tools in the hands of the railroad companies, and one of them was actually a hired clerk in the office of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company.

  • BONDS When a railroad company, or a city or any other corporation desires to borrow money it is a common practice to issue instruments of credit called BONDS.

  • The franchise of a railroad company is the right to operate its road.

  • The whole property of a railroad company, considered simply as real estate and equipment, is usually worth but a small fraction of the amount for which it is mortgaged.

  • Carpenter, President for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, and H.

  • The work to be completed and finished in the best manner, for which the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company agreed to pay H.

  • The Mountaineer printed the call, and it spoke of the railroad as "our railroad company"!

  • And he had the face to offeh me ten thousand dollahs a yeah to act as consulting counsel for him against the railroad company!

  • In 1869 the San Francisco and San José was extended to Gilroy by a company known as the Santa Clara and Pajaro Valley Railroad Company.

  • As a still further protection, it was provided that the beneficiary of the lease must be a railroad company.

  • Assuming that I was the chief broker for the railroad company in the present campaign, these men wrote me letters which were in the highest degree incriminating.

  • Though the momentous Tuesday was still three days in the future, Mr. McVickar was actively at work on the Saturday morning, gathering in the loose ends and strengthening the railroad company's defences.

  • To Mrs. Honoria, thus isolated, came at the appointed time the sober-eyed young traffic manager for the railroad company.

  • But how does this concern the railroad company?

  • Again, Vanderbilt patronized the printing presses, and many more millions of stock, all fictitious capital, were added to the already flooded capital of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company.

  • At the very inception of the railroad corruption began [Footnote: Report of the New York State and Erie Railroad Company, New York State Assembly Document No.

  • One company, the Minnesota Central, sold its entire railroad property to the Milwaukee interest, retaining its unsold lands, and claimed to survive as a railroad company entitled to hold its lands free of taxation.

  • The legislature could not deprive a railroad company of its property—rents, issues, and profits included—without due process of law, much less could a commission.

  • The Government cannot justly ask a railroad company to carry the mails without profit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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