Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary 1923 figures for the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad are in; the showing it has made has justified its owner, Henry Ford, in his prediction. The property consists of over 400 miles of main line with trackage rights over another 50 miles, and about 160 miles of yards and sidings. When Henry Ford purchased the road on July 10, 1920, for $5,000,000, most critics thought he had been stuck rather badly at last. Indeed, during 1920, a deficit of $2,121,524 was run up. Since that time, however, Mr. Ford has routed much profitable traffic over...
...Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education. He is an ex-President of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association. He is chief counsel for the Chicago and Alton Railroad and his firm are general counsel for the Michigan Central, the Union Stock Yards and Transit Co., the Booth Fisheries...
...Vice President were nominated. There were 27 delegates present, who constituted themselves "the People's Progressive Party." The Chairman of the Convention, Roy M. Harrop of Omaha, announced that he had letters from 463 people who wanted to come but were not able to pay their railroad fare. In view of the number present, Mr. Harrop announced that every delegate would be allowed to speak as long as he liked on any subject...
Federal troops captured Esperanza station on the Vera Cruz Railroad and extended their operation to Orizaka and Talapa. Rebel losses exceeded 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. All these places are in the vicinity of the port of Vera Cruz, the rebel stronghold, which was threatened and which the Federals expected soon to occupy...
...prosperity of the life insurance companies is due to several causes. Higher wages scales have augmented the number of individual policy holders and increased the amounts of life insurance carried by them. Also, the group insurance idea has proved popular; last year the Southern Pacific Railroad at one stroke insured 80,000 employees...