Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here the Swedish exiles founded Gammal- Svenksby-Old Swedish Town. For over 125 years they and their descendants have raised wheat, cultivated vineyards, and all that time have kept their Swedish language, their Swedish tradition...
...Southern Pacific...
...Southern Pacific...
Improvement in railway net operating income has generally resulted not so much from increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's Paul Shoup, man most responsible for Southern Pacific's present scope and vigor...
...Paul Shoup was a Southern Pacific ticket agent and freight clerk; at 31 he was assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose...