Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toledo, the Wabash goes through Indiana and Illinois, gives us an additional line into St. Louis and an entirely new line into Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock we control anyhow) and the Western...
Hotelman Bowman, a product of Toronto, got his first job in a Yonkers haberdashery. After hotel-clerking for some time in the South and the Adirondacks he went to work in Durland's Riding Academy, Manhattan. When Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore...
...Fort Myers, Fla., last week, Motorman Henry Ford talked of a world-wide Ford factory system. Said he: "I am frank to admit that I am an internationalist." He predicted Ford plants in France, in Russia, in Ireland, in South America and in other (unspecified) countries...
Mexico and South America, headed by E. J. Sadler, President of Creole Petroleum...
...years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...