Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of his life he amassed a fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas...
...forgetfulness of the old unscrupulous dealings. Yet even today new giants are waging financial wars, or at least sparring for position in a great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating its freight system and a valuable power in any trade with...
...west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem not to have been very clear and the exact point of the disturbance was not easily determined. No damage directly traceable to the earthquake was reported. A rattling of windows, a swinging...
...interested in promoting world peace; Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon League Leader?to say that Prohibition Commissioner Haynes had done well in office considering the difficulties he encountered; the gymnastic team of the Springfield (Mass.) Y.M.C.A. College, returning from a seven week, 11,000 mile exhibition tour through the Southwest and Mexico...
...Government was put upon a budget system, there have been seven regular meetings of the Federal "business" organization ? seven meetings with the purpose of reducing Federal expenditures. Last week, President Coolidge went before an eighth meeting to urge the same object. In Continental Memorial Hall, just a block southwest of the. White House, 2,000 people assembled to hear the President and General Lord, Director of the Budget. Messrs. Mellon, Hoover, Wilbur, Work, Gore, Stone were on the platform representing the Cabinet. General Hines, Chief of Staff, and Admiral Eberle were there likewise. "The meeting of the board...