Word: coast-to-coast
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...program for the coast-to-coast radio concert to be broadcast by the Pierian Sodality tonight as the last program celebrating its one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary, was announced today, W. R. Holmes '28 will conduct...
...broadcast will be made by the Pierian Sodality of 1808 Monday from 10 to 11 o'clock, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, as one feature in the 125 year celebration program. The radio concert will be given at WBZ and will be sent over a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Company. E. B. Hill, professor of Music, will speak on the history, of the Sodality, and the orchestra will be assisted by the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Diminutive Jimmy Haizlip swooped across the Cleveland finish line to win the Bendix prize, then sped on for a coast-to-coast record. When he set his little plane down on Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., he had spanned the Continent in 10 hr. 19 min., nearly an hour faster than Major Doolittle's 1931 record. No sooner had Jimmy Haizlip landed than Roscoe Turner roared down on the field, 39 min. behind but still far ahead of the Doolittle time...
Denver is a synthetic city. It is off the transcontinental railroad line. The $18,000,000 Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide may eventually bring coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown...
...passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...