Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Calgary the Baldwins would proceed to the smart resort at Banff, Alberta; and thence return through Calgary to Winnipeg, whence they would speed through Ottawa a second time and finally board the Empress of Scotland at North Sydney...
...machine. Yet, last week, the French Academy of Sciences admitted Leonardo Torres y Quevodo, mathematician from Madrid, to associate membership because he effectively demonstrated a chess-playing machine. Senor Quevodo's automaton meets all emergencies of the game when less than half of the chessmen are on the board; is even able to stop playing in case its human opponent cheats...
...invested $14,000,000 of its $21,436,642 surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely connected with Judge Gary...
...Federal Reserve Board last week gave permission to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank to lower its re-discount rate from 4% to 3½%. This means that banks of the Tenth (Kansas City) Federal Reserve District which belong to the system, can borrow money for 3½% and consequently can afford to loan money to individuals and concerns at a relatively cheap rate. The lowered rate will have one effect of helping the farmers of the Tenth District harvest and ship the season's crops advantageously...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...