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...Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust out of use each year. Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed...
...with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...
...additional 2,000,000 shares of stock "to take advantage of any favorable opportunities which might present themselves for still further expanding business." In the reorganization of Royal Mail, effected last August, Lord Essendon played a lead part. One-half of Royal Mail's one and one-half million tons of shipping were grouped into two new operating subsidiaries, one combining services to Africa's west coast, one to South America's east coast. Lord Essendon became head of the South American group. Famed Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. serving Capetown and Africa's east coast...
...fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
...Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that his cashiers began handling $5,000,000 a year. Nevadans regard him as one of the best friends...