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...Continental and Commercial National Bank, announced that Chicago's quota was oversubscribed. The other cities followed, piling on their oversubscriptions. Money flowed. No official list of subscribers was given out, but it was understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...
...have already taken advantage of the friendly attitude of Congress toward consolidations, to absorb new lines. But now the most likely small roads have been largely snapped up, although some still remain. There is, for example, the story in Wall Street that the Southern Pacific might take over the Rock Island. At any rate, many roads remain that are not greatly desired, except as a means to avoid presenting excess railway earnings to the Government...
...Preventing all danger of slides in Culebra Cut by a series of concrete monoliths sunk through the sliding strata to solid rock below...
...cigars in three minutes and they were all Corona Coronas.' The only thing new about all this is the quality of the cigars. . . . Mr. Butler is a shrewd, hard-headed man. You feel that the Corona Coronas are not an accident. Like Alexander Hamilton, he can touch the rock of political resources and abundant streams of revenue will burst forth...
...present sale, evidently has no question for he states that bids will open at five thousand dollars. Certainly if any private citizen should buy it and not use it in the foundation of his house or as a stepping stone, he would need a room "founded upon a rock" to place...