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Fifteen minutes from San Francisco, between the Bay and the Berkeley foothills, a new $2,000,000 race track called the Golden Gate Turf Club has been opened by a group of California turfmen, headed by President Harry Brown of the Interocean Steamship Corp. Three years ago such a venture would have been considered quicksand suicide: there were scarcely enough high-grade thoroughbreds in the U. S. to keep two big California tracks going during the winter. But Californians have recently gone in for breeding...
...wound up with a job in the foreign department of a Manhattan bank. In Russia's great year, as Kerensky gave way to Lenin, Alexander Alexandroff quit his job, moved into a small store building on Manhattan's East Side, and painted a dingy sign, "Steamship Agent," on his window...
...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...
...Francisco, American Hawaiian Steamship officials read a logbook entry made by Captain B. Leep of their S.S. Oklahoman: "Left Portland with 10 heifers, arrived Manila with 9 heifers, one cow and bull calf...
...their first official task, shaking black and white hands. Then the Governor and his lady waved to the people of their domain from a balcony and drove off to get a long cool drink at Government House. Already the Duke had lent Nassau a helping hand. In Manhattan. Eastern Steamship Lines reported a boom in tourist bookings of Americans who wanted to visit the islands...