Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yellow Fever. From Havana came Dr. Aristides Agramonte, member of the yellow fever commission appointed by the U. S. just after the Spanish American War. Graphically he described the adventures of the scientific pioneers who discovered the mosquito carrier* of yellow fever in 1900. Enthusiastically he lauded the labors of Dr. Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Jesse W. Lazear...
Before the War, people with hurried, valuable or perishable parcels to ship addressed themselves directly to the American Express Co., the Adams Express Co., or Wells, Fargo & Co. During the War, the Government monopolized railroading and expressing. In 1918 a single new company, the American Railway Express Company, inherited from the Government a monopoly of the express-carrying business of the U. S. The three oldtime companies have valuable stock interests in this temporary express trust, which enormously increases the market value of their own shares. The holdings of Adams Express in American Railway Express stock were estimated last week...
After the War someone asked him, "What is the position of U. S. shipping?"-"We are where we were," said Captain Dollar. Though most shippers in western waters thought we were a long way behind or ahead of where we were, Captain Dollar started in 1924 a service of ships named after Presidents, carrying passengers and cargoes round the world from New York with 21 ports of call...
...American sailors paid a minimum wage four times higher than the minimum wage for Japanese sailors. But though the bill was passed he went on beating Japanese competition. He sent his son Stanley to Washington to bid for five boats the U. S. had built for the War. His bid ($1,125,000 each; one third cash) was more than the Pacific Mail could offer. Stanley wired back...
Last week was perhaps the most remarkable speculative week in modern history of the New York Stock Exchange. Speculative, because there were no political or geological events like the declaration of War in 1914, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Modern, because in olden days (up to 1907), the trading was small in volume and almost entirely between professional speculators, consequently subject to more sudden and violent whims than the trading of today, which affects the fortune of perhaps 7,000,000 U. S. security owners...