Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital of Teheran and thence on to an undetermined point on the Caspian seashore...
...airplane and, last week, it was delivered to his pilot by the Fairchild Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, Long Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
...Chrysler Corp...
Driving sharply eastward over the North Atlantic last week but kept apart by the watery curve of the days were two great U. S. steelmakers. The first was James Augustine Farrell, 65, since 1911 president of the U. S. Steel Corp. The second was Charles Michael Schwab, 66, the first (1901-04) president of the U. S. Steel, now chairman of Bethlehem Steel.* Mr. Schwab was going to England to receive the Bessemer Medal; Mr. Farrell was going to Italy for health & pleasure. He had worked 18 years without surcease and now he needed recuperation...
...discount the promissory notes of Ford motor car buyers, as General Motors Acceptance Corp. has discounted billions of dollars of G. M. C.-made cars, Detroit bankers were busy last week organizing the Universal Finance Co. It will get its chattel money from and through the Guardian Trust Co. of Detroit and its affiliated Guardian Detroit Bank (in Detroit) and Guardian Detroit Co. (security house in Manhattan). Among directors of the Guardian Trust of Detroit are potent motor car makers...