Word: penns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many U. S. citizens know that the Delaware Bay region was colonized by Sweden nearly 40 years before the pious arrival of long-haired William Penn. In 1638 Sweden's Mayflower, the Kalmar Nyckel, put colonists ashore at what is now known as The Rocks, near the site of the present city of Wilmington. The settlement, named Christina in honor of Sweden's young queen, scarcely got started before it was lost to the Dutch and then to the English. As the prelude to a tercentenary celebration of New Sweden next year, an exhibition of Swedish art opened...
...promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build a competing road 25 mi. south of the Pennsylvania's main Harrisburg-Pittsburgh line along the 46 miles shorter route surveyed half a century before...
After two years of feverish construction during which more than $10,000,000 was poured into rights, roadbeds and tunnels, the competing lines agreed to return again to their backyards. So eight months before completion the "South Penn" was abandoned, peace reigned in the Alleghenies and no appreciable dent was made in the $200,000,000 Vanderbilt fortune...
...Mark's Stockbridge Hartstone, Leon C. 17 155 5.8 Brookline High Brookline Helman, Clifton F. 18 160 5.11 Boston Latin Brookline Hires, William L. 19 170 6. Montgomery Berwyn, Pa. Hornblower, Ralph Jr. 18 160 5.10 Milton Academy Boston Hulse, Stacy B. 17 160 5.9 Belmont Hill York, Penn. James, Robert A. 17 175 5.10 H'rv'rd Sch'l f'r B'ys Chicago, Ill. Keyes, Frederick A. 17 160 6. Boston Latin Boston Kurtz, Paul B. 18 130 5.8 South Kent Philadelphia, Pa. Lo Roun, Yann 18 165 5.10 Andover Philadelphia, Pa. Lyell, Rosslyn...
...48th annual convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters in Denver last week delegates generally agreed that this rhetorical question by Vice President Alexander E. Patterson of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. struck at the heart of insurance's chief current problem. Major tenet of modern life underwriting is counsel and service to the insured-no high-pressure methods such as some salesmen use to sell anybody anything for a commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval...