Word: centralized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...
...space for 1,200 cars ... a railroad station under the ground . . . swimming pool, auditoriums, restaurants, shops, three clubs scattered about on various floors. . . . Thus, the Apparel Manufacturers' Mart which will be erected along the Chicago River (Wacker Drive) and almost entirely in the air rights of the Illinois Central Railroad...
...purpose of this giant, as explained by its name, is to provide a central and all-inclusive capital for U. S. makers of clothes. Some members of the board of governors of The Apparel Mart Association are: Alfred Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice...
...ingenious scribe pictured, in the Wall Street Journal, the delicious prosperity which would accrue to the Illinois Central should all its air rights on the riverfront be leased upon the same valuation, not yet announced but estimated as approximately $8,000,000 or $45 for a square foot. At this rate, all the 2,800,000 square feet on which the Illinois Central controls the air rights would produce an annual 5% rental of $6,300,000 or a revenue sufficient to pay more than $4.75 on each share of its common stock...