Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...
...Mackay did not fare much better than Mr. Behn. The value of his immense I. T. & T. holdings melted like snow when the price dropped from a 1929 high of $149 per share to a Depression low of $2.63. Not long after that low was reached, Mr. Mackay was living in the superintendent's cottage on his Long Island estate, having closed his big house and stopped the salaries of his hundreds of gardeners, grooms and domestics. To-day with non-dividend-paying I. T. & T. selling at $9 Mr. Mackay is certainly solvent but he no longer plays...
...Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting the horses over the pass to Circle in bad weather, mail has not always reached us promptly. For that reason we received all four March issues at once. There will be no mail service this month...
...tourist trade. Pictures of Nature's grandeur, of Yellowstone geysers, California trout fishermen, New Mexico Indians, Florida bathing girls, New England sailboats, loomed large in railroad copy. "Vacationland" became a copywriter's cliché. There were exceptions in the form of notable institutional campaigns. Lackawanna invented "Phoebe Snow," the girl who traveled "The Road of Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded...
...sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority. When the north woods were stripped, he moved into Idaho, into Oregon...