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Southward from Tokyo to the sea, railway tracks writhed and telegraph poles came reeling down as the earth crust moved and slithered. With all communications cut, soaring airplanes could only report that at Osaka, second largest city of Japan, fires had broken out, and that Kobe, third city, biggest port, was in confusion. Reputedly, the Amarubes Bridge, longest railway bridge in the Far East, had shaken down...
...Stewart's biggest coup came in 1925 when he combined the Pan-American Petroleum Co. (Edward L. Doheny's mainspring) and the British Mexican Co. with the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. And that is why some say that Mr. Stewart is the toughest and least stoppable fullback in the oil field...
...play at Princeton. While Harvard probably will not care to return to Lafayette and Bloomington in 1928 because of the small gate receipts. Princeton ought to find that no reason for not being, willing to play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums and larger by 5,000 than the Yale bowl...
...work on we'll hurry to finish this." Questioned as to the merits of the structure, he divulged that this was his beat effort. "It's 10 feet longer than the cage I built up in Andover and it's got the biggest skylight of any cage I know of. The track's two feet narrower than the one up there, but it's 10 laps to a mile and that ought to be plenty for anybody...
...little private publicity these days. Only through his feverishly active and vociferous son and namesake does he appear headlines.* But last week he appeared in headlines quite independently. He served to make one of Manhattan's fondest illusions come true-that someone with a name like Vanderbilt is "biggest clubman." The 1927 edition of Club Members of New York shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. belongs to 16 clubs- Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, University, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Union League, Century Association, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf and Field, Engineers', Yale, Seawanhaka and Corinthian Yacht...