Word: seaboarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the death. Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming, to protect other laboratory workers from the contagion, decided to move further psittacosis research to some isolated quarantine island along the Atlantic seaboard...
...week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct...
...railroading in 1868 as a rodman. He worked for many a road in the East and South, in 1909 became president of the C. G. W. Appointed Wartime director-general of military railroads by Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, he supervised the shipping of men to the Atlantic seaboard, of railroad supplies to Europe. received the Distinguished Service Medal. the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He lived with his son-in-law, Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime secretary- treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
...probable cause: Standard has signed a $25,000,000 contract for Soviet refined products. It was this buying of what Shell calls "stolen oil" that precipitated the conflict between the companies three years ago. Complicating the affair this time is Shell's recent invasion of the Atlantic Seaboard and, more recently, the Rockies. Other U. S. oilmen are not concerned by a Shell-Standard fight that takes place in India and the Far East, but would all feel it should Shell carry the fight...
Rock Island-'Frisco. The first major move by Dillon, Read & Co. in the railroad field was their obtaining control of the Seaboard Air Line. Last week it was revealed that the firm controls about 11% of the outstanding stock of Rock Island and a large block of St. Louis & San Francisco, which controls Rock Island. Foreseen: a Rock Island-'Frisco merger...