Age and achievement in finance and industry headline
A column argues youth is not essential for leadership and success. Noting Col Washington Roebling at eighty four and bankers and railroad leaders in their fifties to eighties, it asserts that many major corporate figures produce their best work after age fifty, challenging the cradle snatcher idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Washington A. Roebling
B. G Forbes
America
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
J. A. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Samuel Ren
Pennsylvania
Truesdale
Lackawannans
Elliott
Northern Pacific
Lovett
Harriman Ines
Portable Houses to France Transforming War Riveted Landscape
An American lumber company ships 3100 portable houses to northern France and Belgium, with a $15 million freight bill of about $4 million. The first Baltimore departure signals a vast rebuilding effort replacing stone cottages with bright frame homes as peasants face rapid housing changes amid war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Lumber Company
Pirance
Belgium
Baltimore
New Britain
Christian Science Monitor
Doughty Pickax Passes to Air Hammer in City Work
The New York Herald notes lazy workers turned the pickax into a symbol of leisure and mockery. Observers then develop a more efficient air hammer with a gasoline engine and air compressors mounted on a motor truck, reducing the crew needed to perform street work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Hammer
Air Plck
Ita
New York
New York Herald
National Geographic Society funds Sequoia National Park land
The National Geographic Society transferred title to 1916 acres forming Sequoia National Park to the United States government. The land, bought in three parcels during 1916 1920 and 121 for 140820 dollars, required 50000 dollars from the government and the rest from society members, friends, and a Tulare county tax levy. Popular Mechanics Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
United States
Big Tre
Sequoia Na. Honal Park
Tev Levy
Tulare County
Californ
Popular Mechanics
His Camping Trip
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a clash between a reserved camper and a boastful red business man. Jumbled wording hints at a humorous or puzzling scene about outdoor solitude and social interruption.
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Lander State Bank
Lander
Wyoming
Noble Drug
Noble Hotel Building
Hartford Cord
Hartford
W. 1. Vaughn & Son
Lander Meat Co
Usco
Nobby
Cccott
Parage
France
Fremont Natural Gas Co
Seanke
Hartman
Oswald & Read
Edad
Mira
Fyfe’s
Electric Shoe Shop
Wood Brothers
Live Stock Commission
Merchants OF
Omaha
Karpen
Colonal and Windsor
Chamberlin Furniture
Casper
Texaco Gasoline
Texaco
John Spier
Wyo
Lander Mills
Lander, Wyoming
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