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Samuel Rea began as a clerk in a country store. At 16 he went railroading, and 31 found him, mature, assistant engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...usual, her characterization is sincere and appealing. The rest of the players, except Mr. Darney have rather inconsequential parts, which they take well enough. Mr. Darney, of course, is the villain; supposedly he is a two-faced, smiling, Chinese-American, on one hand the suave owner of a chain of chop suey restaurants,--on the other the sinister tong leader, a religious fanatic and altogether a dangerous man to trifle with. His make-up is inescapably ridiculous, but it should merely emphasize his deadly real nature. Dr. Darney however falls into the spirit of his clothes, and becomes a clown...
...particularly large; with cotton and silks dragging considerably behind. In anticipation of the Christmas trade, stores began to stock up in mid-autumn; the stocks in department stores last October for the third successive month showed an increase, and on October 31, stood 22% larger than on July 31. Chain stores, five and ten cent stores and institutions selling drugs, music and groceries also showed considerable increases in their volume of business. In October, the sales of mail order houses were larger than for any month since...
...William Randolph Hearst is, of course, the outstanding example of the "chain" newspaper proprietor. His papers in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit and other cities, are replicas of one another. Every important editorial appears in all of them simultaneously, and, theoretically at least, reaches within 24 to 36 hours fully a fifth of all the homes in the United States. Not only is this true, but Mr. Hearst sells his various features to independent newspapers in cities where he is not yet represented. Arthur Brisbane's daily column, for instance, appears in more...
...uncommon, while a few go well beyond the $100,000 mark. This results in semi-monopolistic control, if not of the best journalistic brains, at least of the most popular; and increases the difficulty faced by the isolated newspaper seeking to survive in competition with the member of a chain. ... To have so large a proportion of the country's press in the hands of two or three men or corporations seems to me a menace in itself...