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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jim Flood's Girl | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month -and particularly last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In the Pittsburgh Area | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...School 62 years ago, because he was seriously injured that summer vacation working for his father's Cleveland Iron Mining Co. as timekeeper and payroll clerk. He convalesced in Europe for two years and returned directly to the family business. He amplified it until he became rated Ohio's richest citizen. Unlike John Davison Rockefeller, he and his wealth did not move away from Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleveland's Centre | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Willard became president of the B. & 0. in 1910 and that same year the Pennsylvania opened its Manhattan terminal. For two decades he has been plotting and planning how he could get his line across the river to compete with the Pennsylvania in the country's richest passenger market. A huge Hudson River bridge to Manhattan's 57th Street seemed the solution. Though no official sponsor, President Willard rooted hard for this project. Now he is 70 years old; his great career as a railroader is drawing to a natural close. The War Department's disapproval meant that he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Bridge | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...film shows a Harriet Breen who trades shrewdly in wheat and railroads, endeavors to outmanipulate a wheat-&-rail speculator who has ruined her husband. Like Hetty Green, she is the Richest Woman in the World, hates lawyers, has a son and daughter whom she treats severely. As Hetty Green might never have done, she stakes her fortune on her son's loyalty to her, gives him a railroad when she wins. To prove she is eccentric, she discharges an old maidservant, pretends to have stolen her savings, then makes her rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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