Word: plated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photographs, of which there are 300,000 filed away in the stacks of the Harvard Observatory. Beginning as an experiment in 1850, when the first photograph of a star ever obtained was taken with the "incomparable" 15-inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered it by control of the Delaware & Hudson and the Wabash, by buying near control of the Lehigh Valley and by getting an option (lapsed in the event...
Expenses. To minority stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. came over $200,000, a voluntary contribution from the Brothers O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, to pay the legal expenses of the minority's anti-merger (C. & O., Erie, Hocking Valley, Pere Marquette, Nickel Plate) battle before the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...week, it became apparent that such an executive had both asked and answered such a question. The executive was Col. Sosthenes Behn. His company was the 8-year-old International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which last week announced plans to pay $60,000,000 for the British-owned United River Plate Telephone Co., serving 185,000 subscribers in Buenos Aires and four Argentine provinces...
...week, by Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Palmer upon the Second Secretary of the Persian Embassy, one Prince* Mozaffar Firouz. The Secretary-Prince is slender, with large nose and an intelligent expression. Obliging, he read to smart Chicagoans a lecture: The Regeneration of Persia. Tidily he ate off the McCormick plate of gold, creating fewer crumbs than many another guest...