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...Willard's career as a railroad executive manager is no more drawing to a close at his present age, than that of Mr. Chauncey Depew of the New York Central, Mr. E. P. Ripley of the Atchison, Mr. J. R. Kenly of the Atlantic Coast Line, Mr. Milton Smith of the Louisville and Nashville, and many other eminent illustrations, who reached an unusually ripe old age before relinquishing management of their great interests. Mr. Willard is not only in sound and virile health, but he is more than favorably comparable in that respect with troops of other...
...transportation of natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors in such important centres as the two Kansas Cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita, are also owned by Cities Service Gas Co. Governor Woodring contends that the wholesale rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. is 10¢ too high at the present rate of 40¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that lower commodity prices all around should find reflection...
...Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into...
...westward, its terminus called "Turpin." Two years later the B. M. & E. went farther west to Hooker where it crossed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tracks, then on to Hough. This gave it 65 mi. of track. Last year it pressed on another 40 mi. to reach the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks at Keyes...
...Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; in the ape-house of the Bronx Zoo; in the White House executive offices; in the Roxy Theatre, Manhattan and in Paramount Theatre, Paris; in Lakeside Press, Chicago (where TIME is printed); in the Secretariat, Delhi, India; in Diner No. 1418 on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe; in the San Francisco Stock Exchange; in the London County Council Hall; in Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich.; and in many another structure, Carrier Engineering Corp. has installed equipment to condition...