Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be harsh words from any man. From President Coolidge, who applied them last week to the Flood Control bill which had been passed by the Senate and was pending before the House, they sounded almost savage. President Coolidge added that the provisions of the bill would enrich great railroad and lumber companies besides impoverishing the national Treasury. The bill called nominally for $325,000,000, but every one realized that in practice the cost could run as high as $1,500,000,000, or $1,210,000,000 more than the Army engineers had asked for the work...
...developing a reputation as a "minute man" for New England industry, last week revealed that before he resigned the chairmanship of the Boston & Maine R. R. a month ago (TIME, March 26), he was developing plans to help the whole community of Fall River, as he had helped that railroad...
...chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. and director of many another industrial concern, last week received the British gentlemen of the press. In Manhattan a few hours later Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank and of the Chase Securities Corp. and director of many a banking, railroad, public utility and industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital. Chase Securities and Imperial Chemical Industries are to own and sell equal amounts...
...late James Jerome Hill drove the last spike into the ties of the Northern Pacific railroad and the Atlantic coast became tied thereby to the Pacific coast by steel rails. It was a dramatic event, which kept the entire country talking. Hartford capitalized the "news" interest by renaming his company the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In 1912 telephones were taken out of A. & P. stores. Credit and delivery privileges were no longer granted customers. These changes brought an increase in business of 65%. Three years ago the company was reincorporated as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America...
...handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...