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...growing as fond of her as of a stray Puppy-Rogers' scheme was to get settled in Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage he hoped to find was not the undiscovered outlet of Hudson Bay but an overland route. He needed money and no money was forthcoming from his English sponsors. His American superiors, Sir William Johnson and General Gage, feared and disliked Rogers, did everything they could to hamstring him. While Langdon Towne and a small party set off to find the Northwest Passage for him, Rogers...
Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...
...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
Studebaker, Nash, Graham-Paige and Willys-Overland were "not only friendly [to U. A. WJ] but 100% organized," while Chrysler, Hudson and Packard were "fair" to the union. These revelations strengthened Washington reports that John L. Lewis had no intention of trying to tie up the whole automobile industry, since G. M.'s resistance to a long strike would obviously be weakened if its competitors were able to seize its markets. If this was Leader Lewis' strategy, however, he was would have to end promptly the C. I. O. strikes which last week continued to keep...
Ships regularly smuggling opium into China are chiefly British, Japanese and Norwegian-the British being credited in one dispatch with 76 vessels, and the Japanese padding their sea smuggling with much running of opium overland from Manchukuo. In 1936 on April Fool's Day, dealing in opium was established as a Chinese Government monopoly, and about $3,500.000 per month in opium license taxes go to the Chief of the Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government...