Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build a competing road 25 mi. south of the Pennsylvania's main Harrisburg-Pittsburgh line along the 46 miles shorter route surveyed half a century before. Andrew Carnegie, steel sales in mind, backed Vanderbilt...
...Putney School Putney, Vt. Hurley, Morris E. Jr. 17 160 6. University High Berkeley, Calif. Kayser, Robert B. Jr. 18 154 5.10 Belmont Hill Belmont Koufman, Joseph M. 17 175 6. Boston Latin Boston Lyford, Joseph P. 19 152 5.10 Andover Wilton, Conn. O'Conor, Andrew J. 18 159 6.2 Ottawa High Ottawa, Ill. Oliver, Bradley C. 18 142 5.9 St. Mark's Pittsburg, Pa. Thomas, Edward C. P. 18 155 5.9 Belmont Hill Cambridge TACKLES Curtis, Charles P. III 18 185 6. Andover Norfolk Eliot, Thomas L. 17 190 6. No. Shore C. D. Winnetka, Ill. Elser, Peter...
...Presidents' collection are books owned and signed by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hoover and Coolidge, as well as others. Lincoln's Shakspere volumes, and a signed letter from the 16th President are shown. The only book from the library of Andrew Johnson is the text of his impeachment trial proceedings, together with a ticket of admission to the trial. Herbert Hoover's own copy of "American Individualism" of which he was the author is likewise displayed. The books are, for the most part, the gift of Henry S. Howe...
Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
...estate estimated at $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 which Andrew William Mellon left last week in his educational and charitable trust (see p. 12) may become the world's greatest philanthropic enterprise, but until it gets under way the greatest will continue to be the Rockefeller Foundation. According to the latest balance sheet, made public last week in the Foundation's annual report for 1936, it had assets of $185,000,000 of which $151,459,000 has still been unappropriated...