Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nadir last week was his northern neighbor, Russia. Hardly had the smoke from Kabul's ancient brass saluting cannon died away than Afghans were telling each other hot news. Servants searching the hastily deserted palace of "Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled Amanullah, and Mohammed Osman, one-time governor of Kandahar, whose great Afghan influence once won him the title of "King-maker." All three, held as hostages, had been murdered as the armies of Nadir approached...
...formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match business. At that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step was to unite all the independent match companies into United Swedish Match Factories, Ltd. He then reorganized...
Herr Kreuger is a rather slight man with a large, somewhat bald head, a high forehead and prominent cheekbones. He is a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. He would rather be called engineer than chief or president. He has a motor boat, three yachts, six or seven homes, but has no particular hobbies, seldom accepts invitations to dinner, and even in Stockholm has become rather a legendary figure. Over the door of his office is a carved torch. In addition to his office, he has also a silent room, to which only he and the janitor have...
...Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people like Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge, Herbert Livingston Satterlee (Manhattan lawyer), Ira Clifton Copley (Illinois publisher), Mrs. Edith Oliver...
...where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid...