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...Chicago Exchange and Curb, and the Cleveland Exchange, with seven branch offices, with about 9,000 customers and collateral loans estimated at $35,000,000. News of the failure shocked London, where Prince & Whitely did a large arbitrage business, was said to be interested in International Nickel and Brazilian Traction. This, added to the failure of two small London houses, sent prices reeling in that market. It was likewise a blow to Paris. Said La Liberté: "This firm is one of those which recently have been installed in France and have contributed to drain our national savings for the profit...
Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...
...total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called in to tune up the manufacturing aspect of the business, to align the personnel throughout. That is the work he specializes in - "Management Engineering." He belongs to the firm of Sanderson & Porter, whose clients include Federal Light & Traction Co., Na tional Distillers Products Corp., American Sumatra Tobacco Corp., American Water Works & Electric Co. Mr. Coburn's special ability has been enlisted before now by the directorates of R. Hoe & Co. (printing presses), Savage Arms Corp., International Gear Co. During the War he ran the Navy...
...first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control of Manhattan utility and traction companies. In 1887 he reorganized Manhattan's elevated railway and subway systems and held until his death a majority of the stock of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., now Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. He died in 1913 of indigestion, in London, while traveling with Restaurateur Louis Sherry. He left...
Arthur Newell Talbot '81, professor-emeritus of municipal sanitary engineering, able traction engineer (formula for laying railway curves, moving train stresses on tracks), pioneer in the development of reinforced concrete, the design of municipal sewage plants...