Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, Albany civic groups are strenuously opposed to the St. Lawrence project. On behalf of Albany businessmen, I was in attendance at the session of the International Joint Commission held in Albany, and put the Albany Chamber of Commerce on record as opposed. Among the reasons which I assigned were that facilities in this vicinity were ample to take care of all present transportation...
...which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being the following...
First volume of The Colonial Period began with a sweeping summary of the whole epoch of exploration that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among...
...industry, steel and the equipment makers which use the steel. Fortnight ago New York Central ordered 100 locomotives at one crack, more than were ordered by all railroads last year (83 ). Last week, along with its rails, Atchison ordered 27 locomotives and 3,025 freight cars. Pacific Fruit Express, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western ordered two 17-car, streamlined...
Filed in Cleveland's probate court last week was an estimate of the estate of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, elder of the legendary bachelor brothers whose joint holdings in real estate and 23,000 miles of railroads before Depression were worth $100,000,000. The value of the estate was placed at some $700,000, most of it in life insurance...