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Word: burlington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consignment from Italy was the last to arrive in London. From the Limehouse dock four police manned vans carried the crates through guarded streets to Burlington House, Piccadilly, copied after an Italian palace and long the seat of the Royal Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art at Sea | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20,000, the Baltimore & Ohio $10,000, United Fruit Co. $15,000 (to prevent a tariff on bananas), the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley $12,000, the Cuban Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...foundling with only six weeks' formal education, a newsboy who made $3.50 selling "extras" of the Lincoln assassination, Lobbyist Carroll confided that his career as a railroad lobbyist for the Burlington began at Jefferson City, Mo. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings are even more extensive. Strangely, in this present battle he is the largest stockholder of his foremost opponent, the Southern Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Battle in the West | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...merger in Worcester of three Massachusetts banks, but I believe you have thus far failed to note the recent merger of a number of North Carolina banks, a dozen or more, into the North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. with headquarters in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, High Point, Salisbury, Rocky Mount, Burlington. Former Governor Angus MacLean of North Carolina, a prime mover in the merger, is chairman of the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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