Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Roosevelt went to the White House with six children, to find only five available bedrooms. Congress gave him $475,455 to renovate, to remove the President's office to a separate wing (1902). He also installed an elevator, an electric plate-warmer, dumb waiters, telephones, typewriters...
Downstairs. In the many-colored state apartments are held the great social functions of the Presidency-the 75-place dinners on gold plate, the four crowded receptions with 2,500 officials and ladies invited to each...
...Clarke School for the Deaf, where Grace Goodhue used to teach, to raise a $2,000,000 endowment (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, some $400,000 was still unsubscribed. The President authorized the Goodspeed Book Shop of Boston to put on public sale copies of the Calvin Coolidge book plate, at $5 each, all proceeds to go to the Clarke fund. The book plate, a postcard-size woodcut by Timothy Cole, pictures the Plymouth, Vt., birthplace nestling among trees, two expectant white collies on the grass, a ready fishing pole against a maple...
...following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio 28.9 12.35 22.6 9.42 Chesapeake & Ohio 28.7 24.29 28.6 24.19 Erie 10.0 4.93 .5 .63 N. Y. Central 50.3 10.85 58.5 13.90 Nickel Plate 0.3 12.51 6.0 15.41 Pennsylvania 82.5 7.34 68.1 6.82 Illinois Central 13.2 8.96 12.1 8.13 Great Northern 24.7 9.95 22.9 9.23 Northern Pacific 21.1 8.52 18.5 7.7 Santa Fe 49.7 18.00 49.7 18.73 Southern Pacific 40.911.00 36.0 9.66 Union Pacific 44.8 18.40 39.6 16.05 Missouri Pacific...
Pittsburgh Plate Glass...