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Texas Affair. President Obregon applied to the U. S. Government for permission to transport troops through Texas, there being no Mexican railway running from the West to connect the two northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In making the Mexican Government's request known the U. S. Government issued the following announcement...
...size of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In a very few years airships twice the size of the Shenandoah will be built, predicted Dr. Moore. They will carry enough fuel for a round trip to Europe, and a good-sized load of bombs if necessary. Commercial dirigibles will connect North America with Europe, South America, the Far East. A Government plant at Fort Worth is now producing daily 15,000 cubic feet of helium, 92% pure, at a cost of about 7? a cubic foot, and 50,000,000 cubic feet could be extracted yearly from gas in regular...
...whole, however, team A had little trouble in smothering the Dartmouth style of play. It is only in case some of the Dartmouth forward passes connect that Harvard need fear for the safety of its goal line on Saturday...
...super-power plan, as " dramatized " by the engineers, calls for the construction of networks of great power highways east of the Mississippi and west of the Rockies, linked by several transcontinental lines, connecting central storage stations. These lines would carry currents of 220,000 volts (some Pacific Coast lines are already doing this) by methods of high-voltage transmission evolved by the General Electric Co. (TIME, June 18). Local low-voltage systems would connect with the main trunks, distributing electricity for industrial, commercial and domestic purposes throughout the nation, even to remote rural districts...
...present, four great trunk lines connect Chicago and New York-the Baltimore & Ohio (1,014 miles), Erie (998 miles), New York Central (979 miles), Pennsylvania (909 miles). But from the recent attitude taken by President A. H. Smith, of the New York Central, it has been learned that that road contemplates establishing still another trunk line route between the two cities. Recent hearings of the Interstate Commerce Commission have been devoted to the old question of railroad consolidation. The tentative plan of the Commission had been to assign the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia & Reading...