Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed on the Southern Cross for South America, where he will establish a base for Antarctic exploration and a flight to the South Pole. He had verified his engagement to Suzanne Bennett, actress, just before sailing...
When tens of thousands of Roman Catholics go, from every land, to a Eucharistic Congress it is not to quibble over prayer-books, nor to hold intra-denominational forensics over matters of faith or morals, nor to establish the status of the ape in history. The Catholics gather for prayer. There can be nothing controversial about a eucharistic congress: at journalistic best it provides a spectacle, is "good theatre...
Meanwhile the Universal Air Lines in cooperation with the New York Central Railroad, prepared to establish, beginning Sept. 8, an air-rail service between New York and Chicago. The schedule...
...would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen other major cities. But he did not bother to show whence the money would come...
...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...