Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Point, L. I., who gives amusing parties, dabbles in painting and adores rabbits, has on her estate a guest house of concrete and composition board known as The Hutch. Paintings, prints, statues and friezes of rabbits fill the building. On the terrace last week there was a new balcony railing of wrought iron. It showed a frieze of galloping rabbits and it was news to the entire U. S. art world, for the installation of the rabbit rail meant that one of the best sculptors and ablest iron workers in the U. S. was back on his feet after eight...
...hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north to develop International Railways in Guatemala. United Fruit invested $10,000,000 in the railroad...
...sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). To administer these important projects, the Act provided for a five-man Maritime Commission, gave it some $200,000,000 cash and powers over shipping similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers over rail roads. Last week, when President Roosevelt "temporarily" appointed three* of the five Commissioners, their major duty was to make the U. S. Merchant Marine fit for competitive war with all comers on the high seas. This work lies ahead of them. Meantime, under their noses last week raged a bitter...
...called The New York Stock Exchange, Its Functions and Operations would be sent free upon request. In the New York Times and Herald Tribune the Exchange got preferred positions on the second or third pages along with the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Knox Hats, Reuben's and the Brass Rail restaurants...
...guests, without the aid of any translators, in English, French, German and Spanish, all of which he speaks fluently. This tour de force was enjoyed by the 650 foreign delegates who showed up. These included : Germany's Herr Doktor Julius Dorpmuller, the pudgy head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College...