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Example sentences for "railway company"

  • We have no evidence that the provisions of the Act which we have quoted in a former part of our report, allowing the Postmaster-General to override an award which is otherwise binding on a railway company, have ever been abused by him.

  • So long as a railway company is paid a reasonable rate for the transmission of mails, they have no reason to complain of the extension of Post Office service.

  • It can hardly be necessary to point out that the Post Office has no more power than a railway company has to fix any particular rate, or to insist upon any principle of its own in regard to payment.

  • I think a railway company owes to the public to be careful in the selection of its employes; they should be capable, of course, and they should not only be capable, but they should be courteous and polite.

  • To carry traffic at a rate yielding a small profit, is better for a railway company than to have its permanent way for many hours unused, and its plant not fully employed.

  • Of the various kinds of outlay on the part of a railway company, a large portion remains fixed, whether the distance run by a train is ten miles or one hundred.

  • The vexed question of a proper value to give to lands owned by a railway company, was treated by Appraiser Morgan in a different way than it had been in Wisconsin or Michigan.

  • In the case of such a corporation as a street-railway company in a large city, any value arising from a surplus of earnings is due to the franchise, established business, or going value, or good will of the citizens of that city.

  • Those who have not had actual experience in making a valuation of a railway company's property cannot have any idea of the enormous amount of detail and labor necessary to make such a compilation of any real value.

  • A long-suffering period of twenty-two years passed over our heads before the London and North Western Railway Company could be prevailed upon to erect a decent Railway Station for Dudley.

  • Though the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company, which worked the Burtonport line, was a railway of only 14.

  • The Great Southern being the largest railway company in Ireland aspired to be greater still, nor need this be considered in the least surprising, for who in this world, great or small, is ever satisfied?

  • Societies amongst the staff of a railway company, whether for the purpose of physical recreation, for mutual improvement or for social enjoyment are to be much commended.

  • That evening I left the employ of the ---- Railway Company.

  • In addition to the water routes hereinbefore mentioned, the chief competitor in Canada of the company was the Great Western Railway Company, extending from Niagara Falls to Sarnia, Ontario, and to Detroit, Michigan.

  • The Company is carrying on the business of a railway company, and its objects do not extend beyond the promotion of that business.

  • Smith, President of the Brome County Branch of the Dominion Alliance, is also the station agent at Sutton Junction for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

  • Railway Company if you desire to hold your position.

  • Also, in an action for damages against a railway company, a physician may be asked at what period after the injury the plaintiff would be most likely to improve, if he were going to recover at all [300].

  • But, in England, it has been decided that the general manager of a railway company has, as incidental to his employment, authority to bind his company for medical services bestowed upon one injured on his railway.

  • The two miscarriages I have mentioned were the only failures of the plan of the gang to capture one whole week's wages throughout the line of the Great ---- Railway Company.

  • Of course the scoundrel knew that the railway company would, as usual, send their doctor.

  • When a railway company such as this--oh, come along, Beatrice.

  • It was so like a woman to suggest the possibility of some blame attaching to the passengers when a railway company could be indicted.

  • This was the judge, who, during the hearing of a celebrated case a few months before--a case that had involved a reference to an event known as the City and Suburban, inquired if that was the name of a Railway Company.


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