Word: land
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...means the only, ny no means the most important, although the most famed, land engagement in the Spanish-American -war. Other simultaneous battles were at El Caney (U. S. victory), Aguadores (U. S. defeat). Had the 500 Rough Riders been elsewhere, the capture of Santiago would have been made by the remaining 15,000 infantry and cavalry...
...paper envelope consigned to nobody. The surprise, according to reviewing ethics, must not be divulged. Let readers know, however, that beauteous Phyllis Povah, who plays as sec- retary to the Senator whose demise is so unfortunately recorded in the first act, holds fast to the brown paper envelope on land as well as on sea, whither the characters repair in the second act, and in the end bestows herself upon the victim's eldest son. To many a flashing blade, nocturnal groan, mayhem, is this lady privy. There is a younger son, also. But, unlike the other characters...
...elected no new fellow directors. Their next meeting was scheduled for late in September. Baldwin Locomotive "Works seemed a good investment to the Fisher Brothers. It is the largest locomotive works in the U. S. It owns high priced real estate in Philadelphia, which it is vacating for cheaper land at Eddystone, Pa. It can adapt its factories to the manufacture of Diesel and other marine engines, as has its competitor, American Car & Foundry Co., now a great maker of motor boats. With the Fisher brothers on the close terms they are with General Motors, observers fancied the Baldwin Works...
Mackay Companies, through its subsidiary Radio Communication Co. Inc., bought the land and marine radio telegraph system...
Federal Telegraph Co.* Stations are in California, Oregon and Washington; messages go from point to point on land, from land to ships. Federal Telegraph's profit on the transaction was $1,000,000, said President Ellery W. Stone of Federal Brandes, Inc., a related corporation, last week. Radio Communication further made a 20-year contract with Federal Telegraph to buy solely from Federal Telegraph all the radio, wired radio, picture transmission, long distance telephone repeater and facsimile telegraph equipment which the Mackay Companies might need in the doing of its business. On such equipment Federal Telegraph is to make...