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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following were elected to the executive board: R. N. Clark '32, L. J. Davidson '32, R. B. Eckles '32, S. D. Pollard '32, and A. A. Windecker...
Died. John Walters, 58, of Brooklyn, N. Y., most famed of U. S. racetrack bet brokers ("bookies"), onetime protege of the late sportsman William Collins Whitney; of heart disease; in Paris. Commissioner Walters handled millions with only oral promises, no receipts...
Died. Kit Carson Jr., 70, of Taos, N. Mex., son of the famed frontiersman; in La Junta. Col. He was buried in Taos beside his father, who died...
...their property investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio 28.9 12.35 22.6 9.42 Chesapeake & Ohio 28.7 24.29 28.6 24.19 Erie 10.0 4.93 .5 .63 N. Y. Central 50.3 10.85 58.5 13.90 Nickel Plate 0.3 12.51 6.0 15.41 Pennsylvania 82.5 7.34 68.1 6.82 Illinois Central 13.2 8.96 12.1 8.13 Great Northern 24.7 9.95 22.9 9.23 Northern Pacific 21.1 8.52 18.5 7.7 Santa Fe 49.7 18.00 49.7 18.73 Southern Pacific 40.911.00 36.0 9.66 Union Pacific...
...Dearborn, also, there is being reconstructed the brick laboratory in which, at Menlo Park, N. J., Thomas Alva Edison invented the incandescent bulb 50 years ago. That golden anniversary will be celebrated nationally...