Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, announced receipts of $275,545 and expenditures of $215,070 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1926. The largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister-in-law, Edith Hale Harkness, recorded her opinion with a check for $1,000. Other contributors: Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., $5,000; Pierre S. du Pont...
...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...When I left China I was reliably informed that Wu Pei-fu [since defeated and eclipsed] was collecting from the Peking-Hankow Railroad $1,000,000 per month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...
...Huntington is much like his uncle, Collis P. Huntington-the Huntington who owned most of the Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he was President when he died, and who passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways...
Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne...