Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow, and many a South American city. The 1928 net earnings of the 16 original companies...
Today, with thousands of Japanese dependent on the wisdom of Yone Suzuki and her advisers, she remained at Kobe last week, busy with planning how to pay her creditors 500,000,000 yen ($250,000,000) and still carry...
...citizen of the U. S. was killed, Mrs. Glenn Schultz of Ventnor, N. J., a tourist on the Cunard world cruise ship California. The quake came as she was ascending the gangplank at Kobe, shook the gangway down, flung Mrs. Schultz into the water. Instantly Steward...
Southward from Tokyo to the sea, railway tracks writhed and telegraph poles came reeling down as the earth crust moved and slithered. With all communications cut, soaring airplanes could only report that at Osaka, second largest city of Japan, fires had broken out, and that Kobe, third city, biggest port, was in confusion. Reputedly, the Amarubes Bridge, longest railway bridge in the Far East, had shaken down...
Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...