Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday, Nov. 9, the New York Central's zoth Century Limited made its 10,000th trip between New York and Chicago. In 27 years its passenger list has been 3,080,000, its gross receipts over...
...Traveling. E. Hamilton Lee, Boeing air mail pilot, last week logged his 1,250,000th flying mile. He is the first flyer to travel so far. Last week he was 37½ years old. If he had walked four miles every hour since he was two and able to romp, not yet would he have trod 1,250,000 miles. 170 Passengers, greatest air load ever, flew for 100 miles over Lake Constance, Switzerland, on a trial flight of the 12-motored Dornier DO-X. Football Specials. Colonial Air Transport last week decided to operate special planes to Boston...
...parliamentary body with the longest continuous history is Iceland's Althing. Founded to settle disputes between bellicose land-owning chieftains, it celebrates its millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson...
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. (The 2.000,000th cleaner, gilded and jeweled, was assembled in December)-$1,806,198. Previous year...
...interplay of nerve and muscle, and of chemical and electrical reaction that takes place within the living animal is graphically and entertainingly set forth. Curiosity is constantly piqued by such statements as-"Even when a nerve carriers 280 messages in a second, its temperature rises only 1-14,000th part of a degree." Who ever dreamed that a nerve is capable of carrying 280 messages in a single second? Or that the transportation thereof involves so minute a loss of heat? And by what means; pray, could such phenomena have been so accurately determined? Having thus aroused our curiosity, Professor...