Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system...
...party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals...
Benefactor. Rare indeed are musical enterprises of any sort which have been made to pay for themselves. The Dayton Westminster Choir makes no such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti...
...another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...
...Cola at the rate of more than two million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary dregs. Operating 13 syrup factories, the company is one of the largest single consumers of sugar in the world. Many a railroad, many a steel company makes less profit than proceeds from this 5?drink...