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A Japanese shipping agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through...
Rearing a few surprising skyscrapers above the rich alluvium of the Connecticut River is Hartford, capital of the third smallest State in the Union, home of a considerable proportion of the U. S. insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the...
"There are certain to be engineers for generations to come, occupying positions of respect and importance in the community, no matter what sort of social order we may have. ... It is conceivable that a type of society might arise in which there would be great material prosperity and a highly...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner, 82, "richest man west of the Mississippi" of a paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he...
The typhoon reached Osaka Bay six hours later, after the girls in their blue serge uniforms and the boys in blue and grey had gone to school. It tumbled down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away...