Word: soo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual flow of tonnage through the "Soo" canals is several times that through the Panama, and includes, besides iron, coal and wheat, a miscellany containing among other things thousands of automobiles and a large percentage of the butter and eggs with which the East...
...hell of Great Lakes seamen is the St. Mary's River over whose cascades 75,000 cubic feet of icy cold Lake Superior water somersault every second. At the city of Sault Sainte Marie, this "Soo" River drops 20 feet in three-quarters of a mile. But both the Canadian and the U. S. Governments have built locks at the cascades, that can lift two to four lake steamers to the Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia...
...Jaffray of Minneapolis, President of the Soo Lines, was chosen for chairman of the new corporation, which is to be incorporated in Delaware. With its $10,000,000 capital it can lend as much as $100,000,000 by securing loans from the War Finance Corporation. It was hoped to put the new corporation in motion within ten days. "Big business" and "the moneyed interests" voted their confidence in the financial soundness of the Northwest, and voted their good will as well. Possibly they expected a little less radicalism and opposition in return...
...Addison Woolsey Bronson, the book collector, has been permitted to make a copy of a unique poem which Rudyard Kipling wrote some years ago for Mr. F. D. Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...