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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LEFFING GES By Henry Burbig; Rae D. Henkle & Co., New York...
...past two years, however, the Firestone Rubber Co. has obtained a concession for the establishment of rubber plantations within the republic. This will mean the opening up of the whole area, the establishment of a great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction...
...Reginald McLean of Phoenix, Ariz., mining engineer; of skull fracture, after an automobile accident; near Montecito, Calif. The accident occurred during the Colonel's honeymoon, one week after his marriage to Kathleen Burke Peabody, famed Wartime nurse, widow of the late Collar Tycoon Frederick Forrest Peabody (Cluett. Peabody & Co...
...Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream was to raze the Woolworth Building...
Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...