Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi is the great Yangtze-Kiang...
...matter of fact, intoxicating, or of putting the government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard cities are peculiarly incapable of judging the temper of the American people. There is at least an even chance that when or if modification comes it will take the latter rather than the former direction...
...Sweringens for the Chesapeake & Ohio last week made another feint towards accomplishing consolidations of eastern railroads. In 1920 Congress authorized the railroads to consolidate into trunk systems. But there was no acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel...
...Alcohol Co.. controlled by Air Reduction Co. is the largest producer and distributor of industrial alcohol. Its products are used for fertilizers, motor fuel, lacquers, anti-freeze compounds. Last week, its dominant position was approached by Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corp., newly organized to acquire Orange Grove Refining Co., Seaboard Chemical Co., Industrial Chemical Mfg. Co., Rossville Co., Federal Products...
...since the country's hundreds of colleges have an equal number of varying outlooks and requirements and administrative needs, this is about as it should be. For the short-sighted Easterner who is in danger of forgetting that education exists even beyond the Atlantic seaboard, the National Student Federation has particular importance. He who lives in a rarefied atmosphere of century-old traditions may still have to learn that sophistication is not necessarily identical with culture, and that the Hintergrund may be no more than a geographical expression...