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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pete Jones, Negro, for the murder of Lyle Harris, employe of Consolidated Film & Supply Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...President Hoover last week took steps to improve co-operation on public projects between states and the federal government. He picked his own California as the first beneficiary, prepared to appoint commissions to study its water control problems, to urge the need for a gigantic bridge over San Francisco harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Kansas City. Sam Stine, 24, 5 ft. 7 in., chestnut hair, blue eyes, wanted for the robbery of Home Trust Co. and the murder of Policeman James Smith during the Republican National Convention last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...consumption, 975 tons; water consumption, 1,500,000 gal.; gross ton mileage, 13,780,749; cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Chuffer | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Snowy-haired, perspicacious Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen is chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Super-Oceanic | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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