Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler's fellow rich men. The real pioneers of Tycoon's Coast were the group that formed the Jekyl Island Club in 1886, some 200 families, including Morgans, Goulds, Rockefellers, Drexels. Carnegies. John D. Rockefeller's life-perpetuating estate...
Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness...
...which the two motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...
...Walt" Chrysler was a Kansas boy. Mr.Chrysler Sr. sat at the throttle of a Union Pacific locomotive and made his home at Ellis, Kan., where the railroad had some shops. Young Walt worked as a chore-boy at the grocery store. He hated the little wagon he had to deliver bundles in. When he was 17 he got into the Union Pacific shops as an apprentice, glad of 5? per hour pay and a chance to learn something...
...Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London...