Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
Clues: Two witnesses who saw the robbers; the abandoned car containing a panama hat with fingerprints and wrappers from the payroll...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...rapidly increasing their competition. Last month a shapely steel whale plunged down the ways at Newport News. Va., and was christened Pennsylvania. Last week fitters were busy installing finishings, running gear and, of special significance in a modern freight carrier, refrigerating and air-cooling machinery. Owned by the Panama Pacific line, turbo-electric driven, the Pennsylvania has twin sisters, Virginia and California. The Virginia began last winter to carry 33,000-ton loads of freight between Atlantic and Pacific ports. The California made her maiden voyage the winter before. The Pennsylvania will be ready for service in October or November...
...Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious...