Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem essentially involves merging the older Eastern lines, par- ticularly between Chicago and the North Atlantic seaboard, into a few systems. Last spring, the Van Sweringens took time by the forelock, and by adding to their original Nickel Plate holdings the Hocking Valley, Erie, C. & O. and Pere Marquette, created the new Nickel Plate system (TIME, July...
...excellent fast freight line into New York from the West. The Hocking Valley serves to connect the mileage of the C. & O., Erie and Nickel Plate. The consolidated system will touch New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Peoria, Newport News, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo. The old Erie gives it one seaboard outlet on the Atlantic at New York, the C. & O. another at Newport News...
This new "Nickel Plate system" which has grown up so rapidly, will extend from the Atlantic seaboard ports of New York, Newport News and Norfolk, to such important inland centers as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Charleston and Lynchburg...
Died. Samuel G. Bayne, 79, oil pioneer, banker, astronomer, author; in Manhattan. In 1875 he spent ten days as guest of the Mikado, and later sold the Japanese Government much oil. He organized the Seaboard National Bank, of which he became Chairman. He came originally to the U. S. from Belfast, Ireland, entered the oil business on the persuasion of Col. Amasa Boston, Boston...
...weather holds good for the next seven days and no serious accidents occur on the railroads of the Atlantic seaboard, the states east of the Appalachians will be deluged with a profession of Harvard talent far superior to and more diverse than anything that visiting Europeans can offer. It is indeed fortunate for the immediate prospects of the Oberammergau players that they are to be in Boston, for at present that city seems to be about the only place which will not have at least one visitation from itinerant Cantabridgians...