Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor stirred up another, older rumor-merger of Inland Steel Co. (Chicago) and Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown), both strongly held by Cyrus Eaton...
Morgan Family. When Commonwealth & Southern Corp. was organized recently by Bonbright & Co. with 60 million shares capitalization and Morgan backing, observers saw it as a sister to potent United Corp. which would extend the Morgan utility sway south, southwest, inland to the Great Lakes. Last week their beliefs were justified...
...cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals and the less the breakage. Old time freezing methods took 36 hours; other quick-freezing methods take 100 minutes. Mr. Taylor has cut an hour from the previous record. Thus the inland housewife can buy fish which, though frozen, are still essentially fresh, have the flavor and quality of fish newly caught. The Taylor, Birdseye and other quick-freezing processes have been important factors in the recently renewed prosperity of the fishing industry. Back in 1918, the fish industry was practically for sale...
...will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed...
...great railroad terminal in the neighborhood of West 57th Street and Ninth Avenue. Except for the fact that the bridge clearance was not quite high enough to provide for the masts of ocean liners, War Department permission seemed virtually assured, and very few ocean liners get as far inland as 57th Street...