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Word: northlands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restaurant. Because hard liquor is banned in Ontario restaurants Toronto has developed a "Broker's Cocktail," a startling yet appropriate combination of beer and champagne. For in Toronto, the gap between beer and champagne may be extremely narrow and is frequently bridged on the pungent name of a northland mine. Last year the best bet among the pennies was O'Brien Gold which soared from 34? to $14. In the past few years MacLeod-Cockshutt climbed from 10? to $5.40; Pickle Crow from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miners' Mart | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Sitka, Alaska, angry citizens tried to seize the cargo of food on S. S. Northland, were repulsed at the gangplank. Elsewhere in Alaska, the food shortage became so grave that Governor John W. Troy telegraphed Washington for help. By contrast, in Boston many striking seamen, unsupported by funds from their union, were literally starved into submission, returned to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterfront War | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

What I want to know is-where is that big bear skin he promised to send me when he returned to the Northland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...most extensive busline business in the U. S. which last year earned net profits of over four and one half million dollars is the (1 Northland Transportation, 2 Transcontinental, 3 Santa Fe Trail, 4 Pan-American, 5 Greyhound Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Busman Wickman sold out for $60,000, wandered to Duluth where he began buying up small businesses. Established as Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bus Race | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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