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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cut Rates. Thus racketeering in the dyeing and cleaning business; thus a sample racket. The National Association, meeting in Memphis, in addition to denouncing racketeering (another organization, the National Alliance of Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers has also been active in the fight on rackets) also worried about price-cutting. Dry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racketeer | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

When, last week, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposed expenditure of $50,000 for northern extensions of its lines in Saskatchewan, alarm was felt by the Canadian National Railroad and also by leaders of the King government. For if the Canadian Pacific builds new lines north from Saskatoon and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pacific War | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

A few years ago a conflict between the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National would have seemed like a battle between the strong and the weak; the prosperous and the poverty-stricken, the lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pacific War | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

The Canadian National, however, a government-owned railroad formed from the merger of several Canadian railroads, was in an extremely bad way. Trackage was far out of proportion to traffic; service was often unreliable; profits were nonexistent. Today, however, Canadian National is a worthy rival to Canadian Pacific; since 1922...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pacific War | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

In 1914 England's famed Great Eastern Railroad needed a new president, desired to incorporate U. S. railroading methods, picked Superintendent Thornton for the job. Then came the War and with it new responsibilities, new titles for Mr. Thornton. He was Deputy Director of Waterways and Docks, Assistant Director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pacific War | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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