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...north Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis; in the west Denver; and in the near east, St. Louis. The proposed merger brings out some intricacies of railroad financing. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have long worked together; have run through trains from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. These two roads had the same bankers until the late Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909) bought the Southern Pacific with the desire of merging it with the Union Pacific. He took his business to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., where it had remained until this new development. The Frisco used...
...building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though great estates were being planned-golf clubs, yacht club, huge hotel, casinos-particular...
...time has been on a world lecture tour which has included the universities of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. He has already lectured in several American universities and at present is giving a course in the University of Southern California. Next summer he will return to the Pacific Coast to lecture in the Summer School of the University of California...
Remainder Will Be Taken on Coast...
...President Lowell consents to having the photographers invade the Yard the remainder of the local color scenes will be taken as soon as possible, and then the films will be shipped to the Pacific coast for continuity...