Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States today is a cosmopolitan nation. . . . Citizens of true Anglo-Saxon origin are in meagre minority. During the last 60 years the millions of emigrants from Central Europe, Poles, Slavs, Italians, Sicilians, Jews, Russians, and the Danes, Finns and Swedes, have brought with them into their new home all of Continental Europe's age-old hatred of England...
...Christensen. From Paris Hero Young had promised his prospective daughter-in-law to attend her wedding, even if the Reparations compact had to be rushed to signature. It was early evening before the liner paused at Quarantine where Hero Young boarded a special tug sent by the New York Central R. R. to carry him to the Battery. There he hailed a taxi, drove up Hero's Highway alone. The same night he entrained quietly for Cleveland...
Died. Minor Cooper Keith, 81, of Babylon, L. I., founder of United Fruit Co., president_ of International Railways of Central America; at Babylon...
...United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific, thus gave Guatemala, a coast-to-coast railway...
International Railways of Central America is not a United Fruit subsidiary. It was originally financed from London as, in 1904, U. S. capital did not venture much beyond U. S. borders. Gradual transition from British to U. S. ownership was completed in 1927 when J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. of Manhattan became financial sponsor. The directorate is now exclusively Manhattan. Though independent, I. R. C. A. nevertheless maintains close relations with United Fruit. Minor Keith is its board chairman. And the two companies have a 33⅓% discount agreement by which United Fruit passengers and freight travel...