Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built for Poland a crack 15,000-ton liner as fine for her size as Benito Mussolini's 54,000-ton Rex. Named the Pilsudski, this spruce motor ship was delivered by her Italian builders last week at Gdynia, was paid for with 600,000 tons of Polish coal which Dictator Mussolini is now burning in the engines of Italy's State Railway. As the Pilsudski steamed in, by far the largest liner ever to fly Poland's flag, proud Poles who had arrived by excursion trains from all over the new Republic cheered themselves hoarse, felt...
...barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green...
...between them. Then they got into railroads, purchasing the decrepit Nickel Plate. By 1929, not long before they took their first & only vacation, they estimated their mutual fortune at $100,000,000. From their adjoining offices on the 36th floor of their Terminal Tower building they directed coal mines, trucking companies, street car lines, $150,000,000 worth of real estate and 23,000 miles of railroad?largest personally-controlled railroad system in the U. S. Last week it was announced that the entire Van Sweringen empire would be auctioned off Sept...
...were odds & ends from the Van Sweringen holdings, some of which were acquired, in their open-handed efforts to help local banks & businessmen in the early days of Depression when most of Cleveland turned to the "Vans" for ready cash. Biggest parcels were 35,000 shares of Lehigh Valley Coal, 63,000 shares of Otis Steel, 10,900 shares of Erie, 3,300 shares of Chesapeake Corp...
Cliff Buyers. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns a railroad, lumber tracts, coal mines, chemical works, charcoal plants. It has a large fleet of Great Lakes freighters. Normally it is also a producer of pig iron. But first & foremost Cleveland-Cliffs is a miner of iron ores. Its ore reserves in Minnesota rank second only to those of U. S. Steel Corp. And for that if no other reason Cleveland-Cliffs is a highly desirable property in any steelman's eyes. Whenever steel mergers are rumored, its name is sure...