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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Vauclain learned to love locomotives, the way other men love horses, as an apprentice in an Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold...
With these figures at his fingertips, it takes Big Dan but a few minutes to persuade Grocer Paddock, Banker Winton, Realtor Jones, Judge Burnes and Major Riley of Westover?members of five different denominations?to accept from him, blushingly, and administer, a foundation of $2,559,494.08 to build three nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless...
Significance. About a year ago Russia made a drastic cut in her imports from Persia, which were then about 60,000,000 rubles annually, while Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
Illinois has been able to build some of the finest concrete highways in the nation without the aid of a gasoline tax. But now, what will she be able to do with the added wealth of the two-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 ? Will she have electric-lighted boulevards through the prairies? Will she have marble bridges? Unfortunately, she lost a little of her potential revenue when some 85% of her automobile owners drove to gasoline stations on the day before the tax began, and shouted: "Fill 'er up!" In Illinois...
Colonel Green plans to build a $1,500,000 airport on his estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass, (near New Bedford). He will have two magnificent runways, 3,800 and 2,700 feet long; a bay protected by a breakwater for the use of seaplanes; some of the finest radio equipment in the U. S.; spacious hangars, experimental buildings...