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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
When this proposal was broached last week at Rome, the news traveled swiftly to Paris and there drew a loud, whinnying tening expedition, and seemed to have in mind that he would climb up the Italian side of Mont Blanc and perform the rechristening in despite of any French Alpinists who might be lurking near the summit...
...first train would go through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building and trying to operate the Denver & Salt Lake R. R. To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes four locomotives to haul...
Byrd. At Roosevelt Field, Long Island, last week Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's triple-motored Fokker monoplane was poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...
Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...