Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio 28.9 12.35 22.6 9.42 Chesapeake & Ohio 28.7 24.29 28.6 24.19 Erie 10.0 4.93 .5 .63 N. Y. Central 50.3 10.85 58.5 13.90 Nickel Plate 0.3 12.51 6.0 15.41 Pennsylvania 82.5 7.34 68.1 6.82 Illinois Central 13.2 8.96 12.1 8.13 Great Northern 24.7 9.95 22.9 9.23 Northern Pacific 21.1 8.52 18.5 7.7 Santa Fe 49.7 18.00 49.7 18.73 Southern Pacific 40.911.00 36.0 9.66 Union Pacific...
...Harkness gift to Yale which took away from Harvard the latter's famed 47 workshop, a playwriting part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment...
...week. Few of the better known planes were there. The American Legion, not the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, had organized the show. But it was the first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes. Many a sight-seer bought a plane on the spot. Many another was there just to learn to recognize the different makes...
THIS biography, almost 400 pages long, is amazingly interesting, amazingly true and amazingly well-written. Its central theme, more substantial in its actual story than the plots of many of our popular novels, is drawn from the experiences of a young English-Scandinavian immigrant in Canada and the United States...