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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...main line of this railroad (Cerro de Pasco Railway) is 132 kilometres (about 80 miles) in length and every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Negroes was quoted as having said: "Sho' would have had a hard time didn't Mr. Hoover come to fetch us to de high ground .... Sho' would make a noble president." And a white man was said to have remarked: "We think Hoover is the most useful American of his day. Why, he'd make a fine President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Aftermath | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Brunswick, N. J., at petition of residents, De Russey's Lane, famed scene of adultery and double murder in the Halls-Mills case of 1922-27, was renamed Franklin Boulevard. Realty in the neighborhood had boomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Announcement made last week by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. that it had invested $14,000,000 of its $21,436,642 surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel & Motors | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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