Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pretty rotten," commented the Monitor. "But you'll do. That last 'landing' wasn...
...Capitol, Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, onetime chairman, now most potent member of the Post Office & Post Roads Committee of the Senate, doubted if Congress would approve any postal rate increase now. Said he, who used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do not see how we can increase the first-class rates, since we made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial...
Last week, carrying out this Commission order, Press Wireless Inc. was formed, approved by the Commission.! "Charter" members are: Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune,* San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor. President is the Tribune's Joseph Pierson, trustee for American Publishers Committee. Capitalization was set at $1,000,000, of which $116,000 was paid in. Stock may be purchased by subscribing news-purveyors, minimum $1,000, maximum $25,000. Stockholders are given rights to send news through the ten stations of the company soon to be erected...
...Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...
...purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...