Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian National would have seemed like a battle between the strong and the weak; the prosperous and the poverty-stricken, the lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world's famed transportation systems. Travelers can journey from Liverpool to Yokohama on Canadian Pacific liners and trains and stop en route at Canadian Pacific hotels. The company also operates its own express, telegraph and news services...
...then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists did not make their everlasting fortunes was that one of them had secretly, timidly, limited the sale to five million...
Died. Capt. Samuel Bolton, 56, of the White Star Steamship Doric; in Liverpool, England...
Last week a distinguished looking gentleman boarded the liner Orcoma at Liverpool. He was carried on board in a wheelchair...
...English Art Club, at about the same time as Sir William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...