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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities. Father John O'Grady of Washington, D. C., who was in New Orleans when the strike began and tried unsuccessfully to mediate, succeeded at last after consultations in Manhattan with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and with officials of the Public Service Co., and local union leaders...
Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
...hundred and forty-three years ago the tycoons of the Honorable East India Co. built some tea warehouses and a squalid village on the muddy banks of the River Hoogly. Thus was founded the City of Calcutta. It was a wise location. The village grew, became "The City of Palaces." Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
...city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland. The contract-largest of its kind in Soviet history-was signed last week. Contentedly, masterfully, President Wilbert J. Austin of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders) turned from his glowing globe to speak crisply of his biggest, most distant deal. "Soviet Russia has adopted the method any large industrial concern in this country would use in a like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive. "It has sent out its engineers to make...
...factory apprentices. There will be, of course, no church. Specifications call for such typically U. S. details as automatic fire sprinkler systems in all buildings. Few concerns would dare contract to build such a city in 15 months. Gigantic specialist, the Austin Co. keeps in stock all essential parts of a carefully standardized line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided...