Word: greated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which...
...only thing that stood in the way was reason: long had speculators seemed to ignore reason. For the first three days, Panic held sway. Led by U. S. Steel, stocks dropped to new lows. Again there were tales of a "banking consortium" holding secret midnight meetings, tales of the "great bear pool...
...shrewd and able executive is Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle...
...smallest tax upon President Cutter's shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...
...Many of the great men the university will bring forth are now young men on their way," said Mr. Swift last week while discussing what he and Barber Bratfish and all other good Chicago University men had most in mind?the induction of Chicago's new president, the youngest big- university president in the land...