Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great Britain?") he parried with a gruff "Nothing doing...
From India, Dr. Jones brought this message to the U. S.: "The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred...
...world system, telegraph wires act as collecting and distributing agencies for the long-distance leaps of cable and radio. Some such far-seeing plan may have been in the minds of Negotiators Lamont and Young, last week, when they proposed to join R.C.A. Communications to I.T.&T.'s vast network of cable, telegraph and telephone. And on the basis of such a plan, the two corporations may appeal (may indeed, have already appealed) to Washington for approval of their deal...
...career has been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed...
...wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...