Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hostile army, 300,000 strong, landed on the New Jersey coast near Barnegat and took the field against the U. S. Army. The invaders pushed forward to Rancocas Creek where they encountered a defensive force of 200,000. A fierce engagement on a 40-mile front ensued. The U. S. centre was badly broken. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell. Trenton was bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving...
Along the west coast competition is zero for Pan-American, stupendous for anyone else. Manhattan's Joseph Peter Grace and William Russell Grace, brothers, are the commercial tsars. They control ships (Grace Line), trading companies (chiefly for heavy machinery), banks. Peruvians respect and follow their courteously covered commands. Other west coast nationals do likewise, from Ecuador to Chile...
Because of the Grace prestige and influence, Pan-American, when it decided to go down the coast, dealt directly with the two Graces. They organized Pan-American Grace Airways, on a half-and-half basis...
...flight which President John K. Montgomery of American International Airways made down the west coast last week was a gesture of defiance, a threat against the Pan-American half of the combination. He does rot like the Pan-American "crowd." A onetime U. S. Navy and Army flying officer, he once was a member of Pan-American. Came disagreements, disputes, arguments, fights...
...when he forms a west coast line, it will probably join at once with the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line which Ralph A. O'Neill is shoving through along the east coast. The same U. S. money is back of both...