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...neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great. In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back to New York harbor. It cut the cost of transporting a barrel of flour from Buffalo to New York from $10 to 30?; for years its tolls paid all state expenses. Is the Thruway a concrete Erie Canal? Not quite-but almost...
...deal would give Webb & Knapp, which already controls $250 million in property (including Manhattan's Chrysler Building), and has operated in 30 states, one of the choice hotel systems in the world. Founded by the late E. M. Statler in Buffalo in 1908, the chain is now the third biggest (after Hilton, Sheraton) in the U.S., with eight hotels and two office buildings, in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York and Los Angeles, worth $67 million. Having already built four of the seven major U.S. hotels put up in the last 25 years, the chain...
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Advance. We moved off at 8 a.m., through a delta that lay ostensibly at peace. In the paddies the Vietnamese peasants guided their water buffalo and their plows through the rich, black mud, relying upon Vietnamese flags mounted on sticks to convince the troops they were loyal. In a few harvested paddies there were beds of deep purple flowers. A mine suddenly blew up one of our trucks, but the explosion did not bother a pregnant woman padding impassively along with her bare-bottomed child and her geese. French artillery opened fire, yet a couple of peasants dog-trotted calmly...
...group plans spots in Buffalo, Kansas City, Denver, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Nashville, Louisville, and Cleveland. In all the Glee Club will sing in 14 cities...