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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dowd Chrysler Sales Corp. Detroit, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Charles Ferdinand Dowd, principal of a seminary in Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. first thought of a way to end the time nightmare. He presented his zone system to a railroad convention in 1869. Not until 14 years later did the roads divide the U. S. into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifty Standard Years | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...yard relay--Won by Harvard; R. G. Dorr '36, T. H. Dowd, Jr. '36, R. C. Johnson '36, W. W. Jeffers '36. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

HARVARD HOLY CROSS Hill, No. 1 No. 1, Maclaughian Breese, No. 2 No. 2, Nicholson Frame, No. 3 No. 3, Keenan Ingraham, No. 4 No. 4, Carroll Tower, No. 5 No. 5, Foy Barnaby, No. 6 No. 6, Dowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED NETMEN TO MEET HOLY CROSS TODAY | 4/22/1931 | See Source »

...alarm board of the Holmes Electric Patrol, police were summoned to find the source of the trouble. Source: Fishermen Kozinsky, Colderia, Torba and Torba had discovered and sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boys | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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