Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the Ohio River at Madison, Ind., there is use for a bridge; over the Missouri at Hermann, Mo. and Courtney, Mo. are similar uses; and at all three places public authorities, too poor to build bridges at common expense, recently authorized private individuals to build toll bridges...
Between the appearance of the two advertisements Governor Smith of New York vetoed legislative measures to enfranchise toll bridges across the St. Lawrence at the Thousand Islands, and across the Niagara River at both Tonawanda and Niagara Falls...
...went West, to teach physics in the University of Nebraska, but, when he branched out into contracting, his star rose in the East and he definitely made Manhattan his base of operations in 1890. From his great house on Riverside Drive he can look across the mile wide Hudson River and perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself as "in the bond...
Homer Loring, who is 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...
...days after the Fall River fire (TIME, Feb. 13), he and Louis Kroh Liggett, president of the United Drug Co. and director of a dozen other important New England industries, decided that, as long as they intended to "rejuvenate" some New England community, they should begin with stricken Fall River. Mr. Loring put investigators to work, who soon found that Fall River cotton mill owners were in the mood for merging and refinancing. Such action required banking facilities, which Fall River lacked...