Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life has been one long, happy holiday...
...Vatican last week announced July 15 as the date for the next long-expected secret consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. The only elevation known in advance was that of Mgr. Idlefonso Schuster, abbot of the Basilica of St. Paul's, Rome, a German-Swiss who will be made Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, a position once held by Pius...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...
...addition to its department store business, L. Bamberger & Co. operates Station WOR, over which it has long broadcast itself as "one of America's great stores...
...control. Inclusion of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a thrust against the Van Sweringens. Inclusion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia would wreck trunk-line plans of the Taplins. A good example of the confusion attendant upon Wabash plan is the fact that the Van Sweringens and the Taplins, long feudists, were united in protest against...