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Examples
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Ed, you see if you cannot buy up some local street-railways at fifteen off.
The Financier 2004
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There is going to be a raid on local street-railways — all of them.
The Financier 2004
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In the interval he had been visited by several men of long connection with street-railways in other localities.
The Titan 2004
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He thought of street-railways, land speculation, some great manufacturing project of some kind, even mining, on a legitimate basis.
The Financier 2004
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He would get in something else — street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West.
The Titan 2004
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This matter of Chicago street-railways, once he had them well in hand, could be made to yield such splendid profits!
The Titan 2004
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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
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It was during the earlier phases of his connection with Chicago street-railways that Cowperwood, ardently interesting himself in
The Titan 2004
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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
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Messrs. Mollenhauer, Butler, and Simpson were interested in street-railways separately on their own account.
The Financier 2004
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