Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Square--"The Dance of Life". Reviewed in this issue...
Such a picture is "The Dance of Life", now playing at the Central Square Theatre. Although no special scene is inserted the entire theme has been constructed in order to allow Nancy Carroll and Hal Skelly to display their musical and terpsichorian talent...
...Great Northern R. R. ordered 14 locomotives. The Boston & Maine R. R. placed in operation five superpower $100,000 locomotives, ordered 1,500 freight cars. The New York Central R. R. ordered 42 electric locomotives for handling freight to cost over $100,000 each. Leonor Fresnel Loree ("Little Giant") announced that his Delaware & Hudson R. R. was constructing a $125,000 locomotive to have 14% working efficiency compared to the present 7%. Steam pressure in this engine will be the highest yet obtained...
...scarce. In industry it is practically useless. But alloys of iron when they are hard, flexible, rust and corrosion-resisting are vastly important to modern civilization. To discover new and better alloys, to manufacture the known and useful ones is a paramount concern of such great companies as Central Alloy Steel Corp., Ludlum Steel Company, Krupp. But their research and manufacture are for their particular business. Man may enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making research program into alloys...
...heritage. Ambassador & Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow created a $1,000,000 trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down his attitude toward public idolization, the future of flying, military aviation...