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...Missouri Pacific will acquire its subsidiary, the International-Great Northern. Missouri Pacific already controls the Texas & Pacific through ownership of $23,703,000 of its $24,676,000 preferred and $10,000,000 of its $38,755,110 common stock. In addition, Missouri Pacific (or "Mop" as it is usually known, from its ticker symbol "MP") obtained a half interest with the Western Pacific in the Denver, Rio Grande & Western when the latter road was recognized a year ago. On this basis, the new "Mop" system will include 15,000 miles of track...
...Missouri Pacific years ago was a "Gould road," and a link in the ambitious transcontinental railway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific which both Jay and George Gould projected. When, after 1907, this plan collapsed, "Mop" fell upon some lean years. Now the great southwestern merger, which it heads, promises to realize partially, yet in fact, the dreams which the Goulds had of its future...
...with his gorgeous right fist. With an untranslatable exclamation, the mechanic dove at his customer's knees, tackled, rolled the Orchid Man of France upon the greasy garage floor, pummelled, beat, ejected him. Next day Georges was not seen in public. A newspaper headlined: "GEORGES USED AS GARAGE MOP...
...Yesterday young Sidis was wearing a cheap brown suit, much too tight for his fleshy frame. He had not been shaved; his reddish mustache was a ragged fringe that appeared to have been whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors. His mop of mouse-colored hair was in need of trimming. His necktie was in a hard knot that did not come within inches of his collar...
Moscow ART THEATRE-Russian Repertory which was barnumed into sensational success last season returns to mop...