Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cochran of J. P. Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business, pocketed the gold pieces always given directors for incidental expenses,, adjourned for luncheon. The afternoon was spent on a pleasure jaunt, no minutes being kept of what was said or done...
...Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard...
...entirely new automobile. It has no chassis. It has no springs. It has a 60-inch wheel base (a little more than half as long as a Model A Ford). If its owner is a tall man he can stand on the ground and look over its top. It weighs 600 lb. It will be shipped in a weatherproof packing case which has a hinged door and will serve as its garage. It will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into...
Dwellers in Cincinnati's Millcreek Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house...
Quietly, the slightly plump, round-faced Mr. Harris and the pretty, brown-haired Mrs. Harris went to work. He composed the editorials. She reviewed books, edited the women's pages, wrote articles. Before long Columbus citizens started to wonder what kind of persons these Harrises really were. Their newspaper was openly fighting the Ku Klux Klan. It was fighting intolerance. It was criticizing racial prejudices. These are the kind of editorials Columbians started to read...