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street-railways

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  • Ed, you see if you cannot buy up some local street-railways at fifteen off.

    The Financier 2004

  • There is going to be a raid on local street-railways — all of them.

    The Financier 2004

  • In the interval he had been visited by several men of long connection with street-railways in other localities.

    The Titan 2004

  • He thought of street-railways, land speculation, some great manufacturing project of some kind, even mining, on a legitimate basis.

    The Financier 2004

  • He would get in something else — street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West.

    The Titan 2004

  • This matter of Chicago street-railways, once he had them well in hand, could be made to yield such splendid profits!

    The Titan 2004

  • The street-railways, as they stand now, will have to be taken up lock, stock, and barrel, and thrown into the scrap heap within eight or nine years at the latest.

    The Titan 2004

  • It was during the earlier phases of his connection with Chicago street-railways that Cowperwood, ardently interesting himself in

    The Titan 2004

  • Chicago street-railways, was pointed to as the probable successor to Onias C. Skinner, and Edwin L. Kaffrath, one of the old directors, as future vice-president.

    The Titan 2004

  • Messrs. Mollenhauer, Butler, and Simpson were interested in street-railways separately on their own account.

    The Financier 2004

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