Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means! Investments in the new Russia are absolutely sound, because they are guaranteed by our Civil Code. The Harriman interests know this, and have obtained great manganese concessions in Georgia.* The production of their Georgian Manganese Co. was 63,000 metric tons last month...
...career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took a job as clerk, and in a few years was helping E. H. Harriman rehabilitate the Union Pacific...
...Loree's proposal was made as long ago as 1905. It was indorsed by the late E. H. Harriman in 1908, shortly before his death. When Mr. Loree resurrected the plan last year, American railroad men wondered whether he did it in all seriousness, or merely to bedevil the "Big Four" which had more or less ignored him. Mr. Loree was apparently quite in earnest, however, and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to build the new line...
Either W. A. Harriman is braver, more far-sighted, more lucky or more reckless than most, for he has just concluded negotiations with the Soviets for control of the Caucasian manganese ore properties (TIME, June 22, RUSSIA). The Harriman interests have acquired a 20-year grant to operate these mines, and exclusive right to export manganese. The Soviet will receive a royalty on all ore shipped, with the annual minimum figure...
Manganese is an essential ingredient in steel manufacture. World's annual demand now runs to about 1,750,000 tons of the ore. The Caucasian deposit acquired by Harriman is much the largest known and is estimated to contain about 70,000,000 tons...