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...railroads traditionally sell at around ten times earnings, but in Canada there is no Interstate Commerce Commission and no recapture clause to limit a road's earnings on its investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian Pacific has assets...
...Purple Hills Quarter" containing the tomb of Saint Sun; 3) Level the walls of Ancient Nanking as the walls of Paris were leveled in the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) and lay out on their foundations a "Parisian" circle of boulevards 150 feet wide; 4) Construct throughout China 20,000 miles of railway, 10,000 miles of motor highways, and literally innumerable flood control works and civic buildings in the provinces...
...would close the open end of the concrete horseshoe. Investigation has revealed that the steel and concrete seats, which would be permanent, would cost $300,000, which Mr. Bingham considered too great an expenditure for seats at the end of the field. A reconsideration has brought the agreement to construct removable stands which will meet fully the requirements of the Boston Building Commission, which condemned the old wooden seats, and will not change the capacity of the Stadium to a great extent...
...part of the general plan of development, Congress readily appropriated $4,250,000 to construct a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, along the bank of the Potomac, by which pilgrims from all over the land may have easy access to Washington's homes...
...Perhaps they don't buy many shoes or clothes, but they buy a great deal of luggage and many things, including Venetian shawls, Roman scarfs, alabaster, coral and tortoise shell. Perhaps they don't buy steamships, but they are passengers therein, and thereby they enable us to construct big de luxe liners. They don't buy locomotives or coaches, but they use them and thereby enable us to build* them. . . . "To whom are you going to sell agricultural products and the fruits of noble in dustry? Only to Italians? Never to foreigners? Do you want to make...