Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh hopped off from airport at Williams, Ariz., in his new and unchristened Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
...Ryan formed in 1912, owns 95% of the electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...
When John D. Ryan's father migrated from Ireland in 1847, two years after the great "potato" famine there, the belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper...
...efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles of track completed an important railroad-connection needed by the St. Paul was also an afterthought...
...confused with Thomas Fortune Ryan, street-railway consolidator, Congo diamondmine owner, financier...