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...commercially successful overhead trolley car appear in this country and spell the extinction of the older, slower and smaller 'horse car ' systems. To Richmond, Virginia, belongs the honor of witnessing on that date the beginning of the electrically-operated street railways. From that experimental beginning, the industry grew until at present it represents about $6,000,000,000 of invested capital, an annual income of about $1,000,000,000 and a record of carrying some 16,000,000,000 persons in 1923. At first the new "electric railways" often proved very profitable and several of America...
...What famous officeholder had his health so impaired by his arduous office that his lunch was, by physician's orders, one apple, sliced thin??William Howard Taft who while President grew to weigh 320 pounds from lack of exercise. Now he walks three miles to the Capitol every morning, smiling all the way, takes a bath, and then goes to the Supreme Court Chamber, with the result that he weighs about 60 pounds less...
...rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...
...three days the opposition assaulted him continuously in the Chamber. Herriot, radical leader; Blanc, communist, and Forgeot, follower of Clemenceau, led the attack, declaring that the Ruhr policy was fruitless, a dead loss. At last Poincare grew testy. He demanded a vote and was upheld...
Eventually the first outpourings of his unknown and youthful pen arrived before the public eye. By degrees he worked himself up the literary ladder, grew to know and to be known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile...