Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average steamer time from dock to dock, New York to San Francisco is 18 days, time between steamers in addition. True, we have 16-day delivery by Panama Pacific Line steamers, California, Virginia and soon the Pennsylvania, but sailing every 14 days, the average becomes much longer...
...share of $15,000 prize money supplied by William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum man, who got the idea of swimming marathons two years ago and, with $25,000 prize money, induced 150 competitors to try swimming the 20 miles from Santa Catalina Island across San Pedro Channel to the California coast (TIME...
National banks are now permitted by law to have branches within the corporate limits of their cities, and branches abroad, but are not allowed to have branches out-side of their cities in the U. S. Some state laws, notably California's, permit state-wide branch-banking. But no law, state or Federal, allows for the formation of great banks with branches in more than one state, such as the great banks of Canada and England...
...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...
...discussion was a California-Hawaii line served by two dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin might construct after delivering their two Navy ships...