Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
...compile the annual report for such an organization is a long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
...Steel. Long known to be "friendly," Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, West Va., M. A. Hanna Co., of Cleveland and Great Lakes Steel Corp. of Detroit last week merged through the formation of a holding company. Of the new company's $150,000,000 assets, outstanding will be Great Lakes Steel Co.'s new $20,000,000 80-acre plant now under construction in Detroit. Hot metal for the plant will come from nearby M. A. Hanna blast furnaces...
...happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months of its life, the oyster gains flavor. Finally, if the oyster is to be shipped great distances, it can be frozen and preserved by the Birdseye process, recently purchased by General Foods...
...George Franklin Rand, president of The Marine Trust Co. of Buffalo, last week brought the culmination of a long held ambition. To the new era of U. S. chain banking it brought the greatest development yet recorded...