Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate, Hocking Valley. Pere Marquette, Erie. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Bessemer & Lake Erie...
Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire...
Republic Iron & Steel is the keynote of the new structure. Organized in 1899, from a merger of 24 small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also continuous but as yet unfulfilled rumors of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in which Mr. Eaton is also interested. Republic Iron & Steel showed a net of $4,642,000 in 1928 and a net of $8,667,530 for the first nine months...
...Eaton is a member of ten clubs, including a fishing club and two hunt clubs, one of which, at Northfield, Ohio (where Acadia Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically...
Louisa Miller was the name of a prize-winning Holstein cow now deceased, which once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised from a sleep seemingly as sound as the bovine Louisa's and given performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...