Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Central Railroad owned two corporations serving several of those communities-the Mohawk Valley Co. (light, power, gas) and the New York State Railways. Operating in contingent districts is the Empire Power Co., and closely allied financially with Empire Power is President Ellis Laurimore Phillips of the Long Island Lighting...
Rear Admiral William Shepherd Benson (retired) ^ LL. D. George Dent Crabbs, president of Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co. LL. D. John E. Greiwe, famed physician...
Henry Wolf Bukle, general attorney of Pennsylvania Railroad...
Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...clock, standard time, on Friday afternoon, the two shells will lead away from the starting flag opposite Red Top for the four mile grind which will finish at the railroad bridge just outside of Kew London. At 9.30 o'clock, standard time, that morning, the two Freshman eights will row upstream over the middle two miles of the four mile course, starting from the flag a mile below the submarine base and finishing a mile above the base. Half an hour after the first year race the Crimson and Blue Javee shells will fight it out over the same course...