Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the War, people with hurried, valuable or perishable parcels to ship addressed themselves directly to the American Express Co., the Adams Express Co., or Wells, Fargo & Co. During the War, the Government monopolized railroading and expressing. In 1918 a single new company, the American Railway Express Company, inherited from the Government a monopoly of the express-carrying business of the U. S. The three oldtime companies have valuable stock interests in this temporary express trust, which enormously increases the market value of their own shares. The holdings of Adams Express in American Railway Express stock were estimated last week...
...associate professor of Government and Dean of Harvard College, has been invited to speak, as well as C. C. Buell '23, former Crimson gridiron luminary. Other prominent members of the Alumni body and faculty members will also attend the meeting, and it is expected that some of them will express the standpoint of the graduate body in regard to the enlarging of the Stadium...
...Wrecker. What a to-do in the offices of the Great Trunk Line! A criminal, a nameless fiend, is, everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
After this, the chase begins in earnest. There is an excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...
...Insull extended a courtesy to stockholders of his Commonwealth Edison Co. at Chicago. The annual meeting was scheduled, but stockholders were not expected to attend, for as is usual with great corporations, the shareholders express their votes through proxies. Yet many of Mr. Insull's people wished to know what would happen at this meeting. He let them know directly and immediately, as though they were actually present, by radio-broadcasting the entire proceedings of the meeting...