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Some account of Planet P was made known in 1928. Now, however, Professor Pickering has estimated not only its orbit (an ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
Manager Beattie, local agent of the far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, was out riding. The blast lifted his horse from under him. Manager Beattie crawled on the ground, clung to groaning trees. A liquor warehouse burst. Bottles of whiskey rolled into the door of the nearby U. S. consulate. Consul G. Russel Taggart was stunned by a falling piece of roofing metal...
...occasional game of golf (medium) is the only pastime allowed to punctuate Professor Monroe's far-flung cultural ministrations, which have extended to Poland, Jugoslavia. Smyrna, Porto Rico. China. Long a cordial sympathizer with the woes of China, it was Dr. Monroe who formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department...
...public enterprises. His reason: no newspaper publisher could effectively serve his Public if he has any share in the "Interests." Had Publisher Dickey been alive last week, readers of the Journal-Post might not have seen what they did: an announcement that Henry Latham Doherty, crafty, bearded president of far-flung Cities Service Co. had bought a half-interest in the paper to give battle to his arch enemies the Kansas City Star and Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas (TIME, July...
...bristle-whiskered jaw of Henry Latham Doherty, eloquent master of far-flung Cities Service Co., clamped shut with satisfaction last week upon a decision in the Shawnee County Court at Topeka, Kan. It was the end of the third round in the great utility championship bout between Cities Service and the State of Kansas, and the round was Tycoon Doherty's. In the first round, Banking Commissioner Carl Newcomer had suddenly suspended sales of Cities Service stock (except first preferred) in the State. In round No. 2, Mr. Doherty's lawyers got a temporary injunction staying the Newcomer...