Word: lehigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jagged sluice of the Lehigh River cuts through the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Thither from great passenger stations and greater freight terminals on New York Harbor run the rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, clean as carving knives. Across north central New Jersey they go?through manufacturing city butted against manufacturing city...
Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...
Over the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Buffalo is 447 miles from Manhattan. Intervening is a country marvelously rich in farm, mine and factory products. They furnish a revenue of approximately $75,000,000 a year to the railroad. Of that sum about $8,000,000 is net profit. Control of so profitable a road is worth fighting for. And men, sitting in Philadelphia for the corporation's annual meeting of stockholders last week, did fight...
Leanor Fresnel Loree, the indefatigable, wished the road as part of his much discussed fifth eastern railroad system. In buying Lehigh Valley shares and securing proxies to vote at the Philadelphia meeting, Mr. Loree had back of him the fortunes of the Harriman family (he was a close associate of the late Edward Henry Harriman), and the even greater powers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He himself did not attend the meeting, remaining at his home at West Orange...
...Inventors. A shy man, pallid from years spent indoors over books and work tables, attended the demonstrations in Schenectady last week. He was Daniel McFarlan Moore, 58, known well wherever electrical technicians congregate, but little elsewhere. Graduated from Lehigh University in 1889 he at once found work with Thomas Alva Edison's Edison Co. Later he organized his own light and electric companies and, after 18 years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that...