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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laundry is now second only in importance to the baggage business which the Railway Express handles from colleges and schools according to W. A. Morris, city manager for Cambridge. While laundry shipments are constant throughout the year, baggage movements are particularly heavy at Christmas and Spring vacations...
...Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains travel only about 10 m.p.h., take three full days to make the trip. Pride of the line is the Addis Ababa flyer, a weekly express that in the dry season covers the 494 miles in 36 hours. Nothing moves at night...
...League of Nations, lacking all coercive power whatsoever, can only express pretty sentiments, while the governments back home take whatever steps seem most advantageous to the national policy. Under such a system Britain must realize that to use genuine force against an aggressor would be to hold the fort singlehanded. No nation thinking of its own well-being could ever be so quixotic...
...credit to Sikorsky Aircraft for pioneering the art of ocean flying. Sikorskys will be surpassed by Martin's new China Clipper at hauling passengers, mail & express over such long routes as the California-Hawaii run (2,410-mi.) But the Sikorsky Clipper will continue to give able service in South American waters, is admirably adapted to the 1,250-mi. jump across the Tasman Sea contemplated by Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith's airline...
...regret exceedingly that circumstances will prevent me from attending the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor," President Roosevelt, fishing in the Pacific, radioed William Green at Atlantic City last week. "I request that you express my regret to the convention and that you will convey to them my hope and confidence that your meeting will be successful and rich in accomplishment...