Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific has lost much of its east & west traffic to Missouri Pacific where the lines compete, notably from El Paso to New Orleans. S. P. now controls St. Louis Southwestern ("The Cotton Belt") and can compete with the Van Sweringens' MOP directly into St. Louis. It will be Vice Chairman Shoup's job to follow the course of S. P.'s eastbound shipments. trying to persuade shippers against diverting them to competing lines, and to originate business in the East. He formerly received $90,000 a year. His new salary...
Other railroad presidents' salaries last March included: General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania, $135,000; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
...direct the Japanese forces their Commander-in-Chief, doughty little General Shigeru Honjo who seized Manchuria in the first place (TIME, Sept. 28), hurried to Harbin. From this base three Japanese forces were advancing, nominally "to mop up the Chinese bandits." but all toward different points on the Soviet frontier...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
...energies of honest, capable men. Those, therefore who are eminently fitted through training, ability, and character to elevate politics from their rut are discouraged at every turn. There is little honor due the person who cries over spilt milk while holding in his own hands the only effective mop...