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...such of his compatriots as Owen Heavy Breast, George Bull Child and Mike Short Man, sent him far & wide through the country as a living representative of the Great West-as-it-could-be-found-along-the-Great Northern. Two Guns won further fame when in 1913 the buffalo nickel was minted, for he was touted as the original of its Indian head. James Earle Eraser, who designed the nickel, used several Indians as models but not Two Guns. Later Sculptor Eraser had to have a form letter printed, of which 5,000 copies were mailed, saying that Two Guns...
...talked with Colonel Lindbergh about ten minutes and I could tell he wouldn't do a thing like that. His knowledge of aviation and his value as a technical adviser was worth every nickel that he got. He would have been worth every bit of it even if he'd never flown in his life...
...which set a twelve-year record for a week's transaction. Gains of two to seven points were the rule. Allegheny Corp. 5's of 1950 jumped eight points, Boston & Maine R. R. 5's six to seven points. Canadian Pacific issues six to eight points, Nickel Plate 6's twelve points, Porto Rican American Tobacco nearly 13 points, St. Joseph Lead 5½'s four points...
...railroads ordered in the last two years. Last week Chesapeake & Ohio fired at the car-builders in one $17,000,000 salvo orders for 7,808 freight cars-more than four times as many as were ordered all last year. Erie boomed in with orders for 3,725, Nickel Plate for 1,200. Passenger car orders so far this year amount to 25 times last year's total...
...Nickel Plate Railroad.. 1.205d 4,410d Chesapeake & Ohio...