Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsible for loans in the Mellon bank while he was still in his 'teens. Before he was 30, he was charged with administering his father's whole considerable estate. Thereafter he ruled and expanded an industrial empire constructed of steel, railways, oil, coal, electricity, insurance, ships, bridges, plate glass, aluminum. In 1920, this empire of Mellonia was dominant in a sphere of industries with some...
Four years ago the brothers had acquired enough grip on the Nickel Plate, the Erie, the Pere Marquette, the Hocking Valley and the Chesapeake & Ohio to ordain a great railroad system (the Nickel Plate) like the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio-if the I. C. C. would not disapprove. Two years ago the I. C. C. did disapprove, chiefly because the Nickel Plate was to be the holding company...
Once frustrated, the Van Sweringens shifted their weights from their Nickel Plate foot to their Chesapeake & Ohio foot. They would create a C. & O. system -which would include the Hocking Valley (already absorbed by the C. & O.), the Pere Marquette and the Erie. The Nickel Plate might enter in later in subordinate alliance-if the I. C. C. would not disapprove...
...Erie runs along that southern shore of Lake Erie, as does the Nickel Plate and the New York Central. Might the I. C C some day "allocate" the Nickel Plate or Erie to the Pennsylvania...
...field stretched out for a sixteenth of a mile to Strolling Player who ran last. When Reigh Count had had the usual horse shoe of American beauties hung about his neck and Chick Lang had been cheered by the crowd, Mrs. Hertz took home the usual gold plate worth seven thousand dollars and a check...