Word: carli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandit took no jewelry or other valuables. With a loot of no more than $800 he fled. He did not even look into the express car, where the dining car steward was hiding with $300 in cash. Out into the hills to catch the bandit "dead or alive" rode hundreds of searchers?sheriffs, deputies, policemen, railroad detectives, cowboys. Six suspects were rounded up, questioned, released. Then the hunt was abandoned...
...When railroads use freight cars belonging to other lines, they pay $1 per day. Last week the Boston & Maine purchased 2,000 new box cars, costing $5,000,000, from the Mellons' Standard Steel Car Co. Unique in the deal was the fact that the B. & M. will pay in daily installments of $1 on each car plus 5% on the unpaid balance...
...Cone-Car Corp. Inland towns that have no talking cinema entertainment, nor any river to bring showboats, may soon be seeing and hearing pictures shown in theatre cars operated by Interstate Cone-Car Corp. Besides entertaining ruralists, Cone-Car will give performances on trains en route...
...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...
...Museum discovered that most visitors were housewives, that more stenographers visited than artists, that 28,000 arrived by private car, 32,000 by taxi. The majority came because "someone told them about it." The favorite room in the Museum was the Pennsylvania German* Hall and next the German bedroom. English paintings attracted 79.000; only 10,000 got any reaction from Oriental rugs...