Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave...
...made to his demands. Shrewdly the French moved. Indignantly a question was raised by Prime Minister Aristide Briand: was the whole 45 million marks annual increase demanded by "mon cher M. Snowden" supposed to come out of the share in Reparations alloted to France (amounting to 54% of the total) ? Instantly, an actor taking his cue, the Governor of the Bank of France, potent Emile Moreau, was on his feet. With flashing eyes he cried, "If the whole of this burden is placed on France, I will withdraw my signature as an original signer of the Young Plan...
...maintain the health of their employes, of passengers on their ships. At the beginning of this year 110 Company doctors, laboratory technicians and registered nurses provided medical services for 55,604 plantation employes, 89,053 non-employes, 31,726 ship's personnel, 57,592 ship passengers-a grand total of 233,975 souls, about as many as live in Akron, Ohio. General manager of United Fruit's medical department is Dr. William Edgar Decks, 63, McGill University graduate...
...Seattle, likewise, the same tendency was at work last week. There was announced the merger of three banks. First National, Dexter Horton National, Seattle National. This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more it will have a $2,000,000 securities company, with a name that could only be more imposing if written in the German fashion: First-seattledexterhortonsecuritiescompany. But Seattle is a city two and one-fourth times as large as Des Moines, and its achievement is of a different calibre...
...Moines is a city of a few dozen men. They operate its dozen banks (total resources $80,000,000), its 43 life, fire and casualty insurance companies (total assets $209,684,400), its 400 manufacturing establishments,* its newspapers, national magazines (Meredith Better Homes & Gardens [circulation 1,000,000] and Successful Farming [circulation 1,000,000]), its five department stores (Younkers, notable)-all the means which the Des Moines trade area of 1,000,000 people need for their business. Most of the men who control all this business are on the directorate of the new bank...