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...brother Leonard was already here and the two built up a big mercantile business, Lewisohn Bros. In 1868 they began specializing in metals, particularly copper, and soon led in world markets. Leonard died in 1902. Adolph, now 77, is one of the world's greatest mining and industrial potentates...
Greece, short of funds, worked out a plan of payments in land for the citizens of its pestilential slum quarter north of the Acropolis at Athens, whom it wished to evict that the greatest excavation in Europe since Pompeii might be made. Last fortnight, this digging finally began. Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden...
...Butte the arrival of the strangers?financiers, lawyers, rail-roaders?will prepare for the opening of perhaps the greatest auction sale in history, the knocking down, under the hammer of a U. S. special master, of the $750,000,000 St. Paul system, the system which stretches from a network of roads anastomosing over Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois, then in a thin line over Montana, Idaho and Washington to Puget Sound?11,000 miles of trackage...
Tire Fabrics. In Akron, Ohio, President Bertram G. Work of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., the greatest single producer of rubber products in the world, has become almost a tradition, although years ago he was familiarly called "Bert." He is rarely seen in public, almost never in the company of such famed rubber men as Harvey S. Firestone and Frank A. Seiberling (president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 1898-1920, of Seiberling Rubber Co. since 1920). Even his comings and goings pass unchronicled in the local press...
...greatest producers were...