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When the railroad went bankrupt after the devastating Labor Day Hurricane, the property was sold by the receivership to a local for $ 800 ( having no interest in the property, the local was offered a parcel stretching to Whale Harbor, about 0. 2 miles to the west, for the same $ 800 ).
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When two bills were passed to reduce railroad fares, Hughes vetoed them on that grounds that the rates should be set by expert commissioners rather than by elected ones.
When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.
When it was to be constructed, the engineers proposed to Nicholas that he draw the path of the future railroad on the map himself.
When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy — notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap ( but not free ) lands for settlers.
When there was not enough industry in the areas Hill was building, Hill brought the industry in, often by buying out a company and placing plants along his railroad lines.
When Regina asks Horace outright for the money, he refuses, so Leo, a bank teller, is pressured into stealing his uncle Horace's railroad bonds from the bank's safety deposit box.
When N & W converted to diesel, 2, 000 railroad workers were laid off.
When Dunson establishes that none of these wayfarers have seen the railroad, he disregards the news in favor of plugging on to Missouri.
When Parris suggests they move into one of the homes they've built, away from the railroad tracks and sounds of the trains that plague Drake, he becomes hysterical and makes Randy swear to never make him leave the room.
When the county was created, the founders wanted to include access to the transcontinental railroad, so a rectangular section was added that includes the railroad town of Truckee.
When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.
When the county's rail lines were constructed in the 1860s and 1870s, additional communities evolved around railroad stops.
When Musella became a flag stop, the railroad offered better opportunities for farmers to market their products, so many of the residents of nearby Ceres, Georgia, ( named after Roman goddess of agriculture ; settlement also called Hopewell ) migrated to Musella.
When Union force occupied Baton Rouge in May 1862, all rolling stock was sent to the extreme western end of the railroad for safety where it remained for the duration of the war.
When the railroad was not built into Tombstone as had been planned, the increasingly sophisticated city of Tombstone remained relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely an unpopulated desert and wilderness.
When the railroad was constructed from Needles, California to Kingman, Arizona, Hardyville was abandoned and became a ghost town.
When the railroad bypassed Hardyville, it quickly became a ghost town until the construction of the Davis Dam.
When the east-west railroad line was completed, it crossed the north-south line near the boxcar, and the name " Wynne Junction " became well known in the area.
When the railroad came into McGehee in 1878 and continued south and southwest, people began to move into the area.
When the railroad came through, Robinson deeded a small tract of his land back to the railroad for a depot site.
When the Saint Louis-San Francisco ( Frisco ) railroad came through the area thirty years later, a small passenger and freight station was built and a post office to serve the small community was set up across the road in the back of the general store that was operated by the McNabs.
" When the day ’ s work was completed, the railroad construction crew, mostly all immigrants from neighboring towns, cooked their supper over an open fire and returned to their homes when the last " skillet was licked.
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When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
When we went for our walks Lilly's brother would come along every once in a while.
When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.
When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.
When everything had been done, Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock.
When the dust settled, he went back to the Jeep and carefully worked Roberts' body onto his shoulder.
When the light went their way, they went on across the street.
`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.
When I went to college they begged you to come.
:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.
When Charlemagne sent his young son Pepin to Italy as King of the Lombards Angilbert went along as primicerius palatii, a high administrator of the satellite court.
When Olympias was repudiated by her husband, 337 BC, she went to her brother, and endeavoured to induce him to make war on Philip.
When Abu Bakr was 10 years old, he went to Syria along with his father with the merchants ' caravan.
116 .</ ref > When air condenses it becomes visible, as mist and then rain and other forms of precipitation, and as the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones.
When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.
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