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...Tacoma, Wash...
William A. Reed, 18, of Tacoma; Stadium High School...
Harry French was in wrecks on the Lawrence, Leavenworth & Galveston (known as the Lazy, Lousy and Greasy), on the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Eastern, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave...
...Court of Appeals upheld the Securities & Exchange Commission rule that the issuer of stock may not avoid registering it with SEC merely by limiting the offering to company stockholders. The case grew out of an attempt by small, unimportant Sunbeam Gold Mines Co., a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Tacoma. to sell unregistered securities by mail to its stockholders. SEC was pleased because it was the first time the matter had been considered by a court of appeals...
...little town at the end of San Francisco Bay. After the 1906 earthquake he moved to San Francisco. Ten years later he opened his first branch, in Sacramento. And ten years after that, with ten stores in California, he began to do business in the northwest-Seattle, Portland, Tacoma...