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...Name the biggest building in Detroit. (See BUSINESS...
...Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before the I. C. C. is railroad consolidation, of which the financial complexities are almost beyond human understanding...
...first Mrs. Akeley was Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wis. She accompanied Mr. Akeley to Africa in 1905, three years after their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went...
...Germany of today is a poverty stricken nation trying to pay off the biggest indemnity of history. The former royal property includes besides castles land, and works of art, a long list of incomes, pensions, stocks and bonds, indemnities,--all worth about two billion gold marks. Do the already overtaxed people wish to pay back from the government treasury an amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will...
...apiece of real money, theoretically. The market-players last week announced "profits" and "losses" taken, to date. The total profits were $14,000; losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS). Biggest profits went to Helen Levine of New Rochelle, N. Y., with $3,000. Biggest loser was not announced. Parents applauded Professor Smith's sane device for educating "a woman and her money...