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...Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied. In Granada and Malaga revolutionary fervor ran high. General Sanjurjo cut all telegraph & telephone wires north of Seville. The general, who had escorted Queen Victoria from Spain after last year's revolution, announced that his coup was "purely republican." Few believed...
Cornered bears, fat with three years' profits, fought madly to cover their short positions. Badly squeezed, they howled loud & long. Once the rally was well under way their frantic buying helped pool managers to push stocks up & up. Outstanding leader of the advance was American Telephone & Telegraph, which soared from $70¼ a share to $114¼. U. S. Steel more than doubled its Depression low of $214-; many stocks tripled in value. Large orders from European money centres swelled the volume of U. S. buying, the dollar rose smartly...
...geophysical stations in the Arctic regions. One of the two U. S. parties under Lieut. Adolphus Washington Greely reached the then farthest North (83° 24'), lost themselves. A relief party found seven survivors, 18 starved corpses. Lieut. Greely survived to become Major General Greely, builder of telegraph and cable lines, a trustee of the National Geographic Society. The parties of the other nations added to Man's knowledge of weather-forecasting, navigation and Earth's electromagnetic behavior. After adding up the results, the nations scheduled another Polar Year in 50 years...
...There, in the morning, he saw two bankers about his company's business, met with a vice president and the district managers. He kept a business appointment in nearby Barrington. The next day he flew to Tulsa, central operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow...
...railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that Sir Henry's resignation may hurry what seems to be eventual, the unification of Canada's two great railroads whose passenger and freight cars, hotels, express services, and telegraph lines, compete from Montreal to Vancouver...