Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days before Christmas the writer was looking over a large stock of cards which he wanted to send to friends and less than ten percent of these cards featured anything that had to do with the Christian tradition. This, The Coming of Christ, is by far and away the single event of greatest importance that has ever happened during all time...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
...done those promotional things, also. Only last week did there come intimation (not announcement) that the New York Central would electrify its lines all the way from Manhattan to Buffalo. In railroad alignment the road had stood fairly unmoved. Its major action was to take one-third the stock of the Wheeling & Lake Erie from the Van Sweringens, who bought the road from the Rockefellers. They retained one-third
...Lehigh Valley's destiny is indeterminate, even though the Pennsylvania owns practically half its stock...
Gimbel Bros. Inc.: Lee Adam Gimbel, 32, as Vice President; to become a trader on the New York Stock Exchange; at a cost, for his seat...