Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific is neither a hospital nor a college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes...
...banker not perturbed by these changes was Craig B. Hazelwood of Chicago, retiring president of the A. B. A. Banker Hazelwood has many friends among bankers, is said to keep track of their careers as closely as changes in banking trends. Known as an orator and wise counselor, Mr. Hazelwood recently warned: "Let the banker who is afraid to face facts remember that his competitor is going to face them and that progress will go on, with him or over him. A mind that is not receptive to new viewpoints is apt to be closed to human phases of business...
Carefully Banker Hazelwood saw to it that the controversy over banking methods could not escape the convention, arranged speeches that represented all possible views from the old-fashioned single, branchless unit to national group banking. At the convention Mr. Hazelwood, although known to be an enthusiast for branch banking, declined to discuss its merits and demerits, spoke on his favorite topic of bank management...
...because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew plans for several smaller buildings. For each type his co-workers figured construction and operating costs. Mr. Clark studied their information and discovered...
...When 2,300,000 people in 195 communities in 16 states turn on their tap water, when 1,900,000 people in 1,275 communities in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio ride on trolley car or bus, these people are using water power or electricity provided by Mr. Porter's company. Stock holders in Mr. Porter's company know that its outstanding common stock value has risen $196,000,000 this year, that the total stock market value of those shares was worth last week $295,892,503, that these greatly increasing profits are due largely...