Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone...
...Union of South Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round. The instruments from the Peruvian station are now being prepared for moving by Dr. John Paraskevopoulos...
...Happy New Year !" † (TIME, Feb. 7, et ante) The Civil War now going on is between North and South China, the northern factions holding Peking and Shanghai, and the new Nationalist army which has conquered the southern hah! of China pushing northward with Shanghai as its immediate objective...
...dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle for $150 a share...
...have revived their interests in the railroads of the northwest. They represented the buyers, at auction, of the $750,000,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (TIME, Dec. 6) and have been one of the agents for Arthur Curtiss James, greatest railroad stockholder, in his gaining control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific...