Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within 90 days, responsible men stated last week, definite plans will be submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for consolidation of the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad. These two roads already own 97% of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (the Burlington).† So it is probable that the Commission will also, later, consider this line officially joining the others. Thus the longest railroad system in North America will evolve -longer than the Canadian' Pacific (20,000 miles), the New York Central (14,537 miles), the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) and the Pennsylvania (11,698 miles...
...will behind this consolidation is that of Arthur Curtiss James, largest owner of railroad securities in this country. He dominates, but does not control, affairs of Northern Pacific, of Great Northern and of Burlington...
...island continent, in area slightly larger than the United States. It lies between the tenth and fortieth parallels of latitude, south of the equator: Tasmania; the sixth state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...
...Nikolous von Strehienan, better known as Nickolous Lenau, is a typical example. He was one of those unhappy natures for whom existence remains an eternal enigma. With a genius essentially lyrical and subjective, he was unable to raise himself above the tragedy of his own life. "No poet of Northern Europe," says Robertson, "expresses as intensely a Lenau the feeling of 'eternal autumn', of unrelieved depair. And it is almost always a tragic despair, rarely that withering cynicism first made fashionable, by Byron asd imitated by Heine." Finally, when his life seemed on the point of becoming happier and brighter...
...emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became (1877) President of Wilmington and Northern Railway; withdrew 20 years later from business to politics and farming...