Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elected. F. A. Merrick, vice president and general manager, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.; to be president...
Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
...Walter F. Dillingham's father built the narrow-gauge railroad that loops around Oahu, connecting its sugar plantations. As the head of the Oahu Railway & Land Co.. and multifarious other interests, son Dillingham is No. 1 Tycoon of the Islands...
...Last month Mr. Keys bought Pitcairn Aviation mail-carrying unit of Harold F. Pitcairn's group. Last week Mr. Keys sold Pitcairn Aviation to North American Aviation, holding company of which he is president...
...temperature. The higher the vapor is heated, the greater the pressure which must be controlled and the work the steam can do. Engineer Emmet sought a material whose vapor could carry great quantities of heat at relatively low pressures. He found mercury the best. It boils at 675° F., instead of at 212° F. for water. At 884° F. pressure is only 70 lbs. on a gauge, at 1,000° F. only 180 lbs. Those pressures are sufficient to run turbines. After the hot mercury vapor has done its work by revolving the turbine, the temperature...