Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stewart, has written to me of your long life together, telling me that you have within a few days celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of your marriage. This is a most interesting and impressive record, and I cannot refrain from writing to congratulate both of you, and to extend my earnest hope that you may be preserved to celebrate many more anniversaries...
...sentimental attachments are in the project. It would reunite the North and South. It would connect the Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...
...Interstate Commerce Commission on Aug. 1 granted authority to build 56 miles of new line for the D., T. & I. at a cost of about $7,500,000, as well as to issue first mortgage bonds to raise the funds. The new line will extend from Malinta, Ohio, to Durban, Mich., and will serve to shorten haulage distances over the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton line...
...wants to go through with this merger [with the El Paso and Southwestern] is because it is now competing with railroads that have a through line to the Great Lakes and Middle-Western cities to the Pacific Coast. We, too, want to be able to say that our lines extend to Chicago from San Francisco, and this merger and a possible merger with the Rock Island system will make it possible for us to say that...
...discrepancy is due partly to helpful winds on the return trip, partly to the fact that westward the pilot is beating the sun, eastward he is travelling in a direction opposite to that of the sun, and therefore flies faster over Mother Earth. The actual night flying zone will extend only 1,460 miles between Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo., with 335 miles from Cleveland to Chicago, and 240 miles from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, illuminated only when the long days of Summer have disappeared. The illuminated airway, a marvel of engineering, has received the coöperation...