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Step 2. In 1920 came the National Transportation Act, proposing railroad consolidations. Straightway the Van Sweringens sat down to figure out their own consolidation. The Nickel Plate was making money and in 1922 they had it buy and absorb two smaller roads: the Toledo, St. Louis & Western ("Clover Leaf") and the Lake Erie & Western. But the brothers had a more ambitious project; they wanted the Chesapeake & Ohio. A block of 73,000 shares, a minority but practically a controlling interest in the C. & O., was held by the Huntington family of Los Angeles. In 1923 they bought this...
Smithsonian botanists last week declared themselves astonished. In their hands they held some giant clover leaves sent by J. W. Thompson, a Seattle plant collector. He had found them growing on Washington sage brush slopes. He had never seen their like, nor had the Smithsonian...
Each plant was nearly two feet high and bore flowers almost two inches in diameter. Most of the 300 species of clover have triple leaves, like the shamrock. There are "lucky" four-leaf freaks, and rare five- and seven-leaf varieties. The Thompson specimens have seven leaves normally, which grow on long, eight-inch stems...
...astonishing aspect of the giant Thompson clover is that it should have been discovered so tardily in the U. S., a thoroughly botanized nation. It may be, opined Smithsonian Botanist Conrad Vernon Morton, "one of the last conspicuous new plants to be discovered...
...stop at his Hyde Park home, Mr. Roosevelt motored on to Albany to attend the legislative correspondents' annual dinner and political burlesque. He laughed uproariously when a "Roosevelt" asked a "Smith": "Well, Al, what do you think my administration will need most?" And was told, "a four-leaf clover, Frank...