Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern. Crescent Limited, New York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard Air Line into Florida. Nor do the northern transcontinentals apply an extra fare for travel on their limited trains. Most famed of these, all making the Chicago-Seattle...
...Portland, Me., Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000. Said...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...
...Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra, Eugene Goossens; the St. Louis, Enrique Fernandez Arbos, Bernardino Molinari, George Szell, Eugene Goossens, guest conductors; the San Francisco Symphony, Alfred Hertz, beginning his last season as conductor...
...then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati, New London, Conn., Philadelphia, Memphis, Manhattan. He is now building one at Louisville. For his genius at bridge building one scientific society after another has granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts and Franklin medals), Paris...