Word: pennsylvania
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...anyone to the title of "typical U. S. seaman." Texas-born, he. took to the Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed off a bulky wooden fender and toppled into the water...
...automobiles on U. S. highways, last year were 39,500 people, some 2,000 more than the number of U. S. soldiers killed in action in the World War. This year's safety campaign has thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest...
Albert John County at 19 got a job as clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. He soon knew more about its history than any other employe and "Ask County" became a Pennsylvania byword. In 1920 the hardworking, good-natured Irishman was elected a director of the road. For the past nine years he has been Vice President in charge of Finance and Corporate Relations. Today, white-haired Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond...
Last week A. G. & E. told SEC that it would: 1) eliminate 112 companies; 2) juggle its properties into two "systems"-one consisting of power properties in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia; the other in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky and Tennes see. The first "system" is already, as required by law, almost entirely "integrated" geographically, the second obviously cannot be. For this the Hopson lawyers had an "out" which will doubtless give SEC pause- they maintained that since each subsidiary was wholly located in a single State or adjoining States, the plan...
...central figure, a rock-chinned, canny young Scottish giant named Alex MacTay, has the makings of a poet, but instead goes to the U. S. to make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...