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...started by C. P. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific. Today the system includes a trunk line of 597 miles, with 58 miles of sidings in Guatemala and Salvador. It is planned to construct about 100 miles of new roads from Zacapa to Santa Ava, Guatemala, and to extend the lines to connect with properties of American corporations. With the 100-mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment of a naval base...
...company's charter, overlooked by the Assembly, permitted it to enter the banking business as a sideline. Promptly when the charter was granted, the water business was abandoned and the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was established. If the Manhattan absorbs the young foreign bank, it will widely extend its foreign service, since the Association has representatives all over Europe, and in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Cuba, Mexico...
...Prix Yacowlef. Since then he has gone from triumph to triumph until today he is talked of as Europe's premier horse. His greatest achievement was capture of the Stewards Cup at Goodwood, England, after which King George sent for M. Pierre Wertheimer, his Parisian owner, to extend personal congratulations...
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH-The younger generation cordially given a chance to redeem themselves and extend a little benevolent paternalism to their elders...
...evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...