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In 1913, United Fruit established the Tela Railroad Company and shortly thereafter a similar subsidiary, the Trujillo Railroad Company ; these two railroads managed the concessions which the Honduran government granted them.
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In 1912 the United States Supreme Court adopted a new set of rules of equity which became effective on February 1, 1913.
He gave a further $ 10 million in 1913 to endow the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, a grant-making foundation.
* 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
In 1913, the Conservative Movement founded its congregational arm, the United Synagogue of America, which would later become the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Pathé-Frères set up a new subsidiary company in the United States called Eclectic in 1913, and in 1914 this began production of features at the Pathé plant in New Jersey.
* 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 ° F (~ 56. 7 ° C ), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.
* 1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
The School of Physiotherapy at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1913, and the United States ' 1914 Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which graduated " reconstruction aides.
Finally, ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 made possible modern income taxes, by placing the income tax firmly in the class of indirect excises where it always belonged, and thus needing no apportionment.
Thomas Riley Marshall ( March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ) under Woodrow Wilson.
He launched a final appeal to the United States Supreme Court but left office in January 1913 while the case was still pending.
William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).
Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 ) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.
Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to Chicago.
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In 1901, the government of Guatemala hired the United Fruit Company to manage the country's postal service and in 1913 the United Fruit Company created the Tropical Radio and Telegraph Company.
The SS Pastores and the SS Calamares were built in Ireland in 1912 and 1913 for the United Fruit Company as a combination Cruise ship and refrigerated cargo ship.
The steel arches and cathedral-like dome built in 1913 that housed the Indian Fruit Market were considered one of the most important pieces of organic architecture in South Africa.
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Fullerton College the oldest community college ( originally " Junior College ") in continuous operation in California, having been established in 1913
It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.
Rosenbloom was awarded the remains of the Dallas Texans who had a long and winding history starting as the Boston Yanks in 1944 who later merged with the Brooklyn Tigers and were previously known as the Dayton Triangles, an original NFL team established in 1913.
He secured passage of the Walker tariff of 1846, which had low rates that pleased his native South, and he established a treasury system that lasted until 1913.
When the post office began handling parcel post in 1913, terminal Railway Post Office operations were established in major cities by the RMS, in order to handle the large increase in mail volume.
The Kingsbury Commitment of 1913 established AT & T as a government-sanctioned monopoly, as an out-of-court settlement of the government's antitrust challenge.
After extended litigation from many, including his son, the Venture Corporation, and thirteen women who claimed to have been secretly married to Stratton, only 6 million was finally available ; but the home was established successfully in 1913.
Nine patents granted to the New Jersey inventor David T. Kenney between 1903 and 1913 established the foundation for the American vacuum-cleaner industry.
In 1913 he won the studentship for archaeology established jointly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks.
The Aldrich – Vreeland Act was passed in response to the Panic of 1907 and established the National Monetary Commission, which recommended the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
He also established annual Shakespeare festival from 1905 to 1913 that showcased a total over two hundred performances by his company and other acting troupes.
* The Ulster Volunteer Force-a paramilitary organisation established in 1965-66, not linked to the 1913 UVF
The Industrial School, the first institute for technical education in the city, was established in 1892 ; this was followed by the Chamarajendra Technical Institute in 1913.
By 1922 the neo-Gothic skyscraper had become an established design tactic, with the first important so-called " American Perpendicular Style " at Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building of 1913.
Since the founding of the club, PSV's home base is still at the same place where the PSV sports grounds were established in 1913.
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