Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under halting organization is the proposed Chesapeake & Ohio system of the Van Sweringens (C. & O., Nickel Plate, Erie, Hocking Valley and Pere Marquette...
...recently by Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...
Died. John R. Thompson, 62, originator of the "one-arm chair" restaurants; of heart disease; at Lake Forest, Ill. He started with a nickel coffee stall during the Chicago World's Fair (1893); lately served 53,000,000 meals annually throughout the U. S.* Died. Guy Eastman Tripp, 62, since 1912 Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan; from complications following an intestinal operation. He recently attracted widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome...
Inside the Century, in addition to barber and valet service, ladies' lounge and maid service, shower baths, free stenographer, observation car telephone (until departure), and market and sport reports, travelers now notice that white enamel is replacing nickel on plumbing fixtures, that upper berths are more private and accessible. These features, of course, are to the Pullman Co.'s credit, as is much else about the Century...
...Nickel Plate controls Chesapeake Corp...