Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance, by compensation, is minute. In this instance, the heroine visits a onetime admirer aboard his ship on the eve of her wedding to the hero. The admirer wants too much...
Valuation. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week announced that it considered the New York Central Railroad, including the lesser railroads of the system, worth $1,038,265,810. That was as of June 30, 1917, and might be, thought the I. C. C., somewhat less than the 1927 valuation. It would be easy to figure the' difference. Newspaper financial writers hastily calculated that the N. Y. C. was worth today $1,285,438,000. Last year the system's net income from operating trains (income from stock and land investments is figured separately) was $72,158,000-less...
...week. Later they felt even cheerier when Steward Lewis Davis, dean of the Broadway Limited's dining-car staff, brought them a little surprise-a slice from the train's 25th anniversary cake. For last week, which marked the 25th year of operation of the New York Central's Twentieth Century, marked also the quarter century for the Broadway Limited. New York Central officials made an event of their train's anniversary; so did Pennsylvania officials. The Broadway Limited runs between Manhattan and Chicago in 20 hours, the St. Louisan between Manhattan and St. Louis...
Meanwhile at Warsaw, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland personally telegraphed to Chairman Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin of the Union Central Executive Committee,- at Moscow...
William Averell Harriman, U. S. financier who has been cruising about central and eastern Europe the last few years seeking opportunities for investing his money, last week clinched control of all manganese ore mined in the Soviet Union. Two years ago the Soviet gave him a concession to mine manganese, invaluable ore for toughening steel, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. He was to pay the Soviet Government $3 for each ton of manganese mined and to rebuild a railroad from Tiflis to Poti. He had to produce at least 500 tons of manganese...