Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Powers Were Excluded...
...Chesapeake & Ohio, and Hocking Valley railroads into a great system with some 9,500 miles of track, connecting New York City and Newport News on the Atlantic coast with Chicago and St. Louis in the interior. It would be a fourth great Eastern railway system rivaling the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio. The roads in the proposed merger are already controlled by the Van Sweringen brothers (O. P. and M. J.), who have demonstrated their capable management by their success with the Nickel Plate, which they acquired some years ago. They proposed by a system...
Just such a feat was brought off last week by an employe of the Pond's Extract Co. The Chicago Tribune published a full page in the current Pond's Extract series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite...
...transatlantic carriage. Now it seems, from the sale of these three ships, that the Hamburg-American Line is to go more on its own, that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman of the W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., of the American Ship & Commerce Corp., of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, of the Wells Fargo...
...evidence of a new era in Law was the central theme of Dean Pound's lecture in the Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon, delivered as part of the general Sunday course in religion...