Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the St. Louis Robin soared 420 hours and the Bremen plowed a trans-Atlantic furrow in record time, a ponderous, unspectacular freight engine-No. 4113 of the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...
Presently M. Briand gave an assurance that on the morrow, after consulting his political colleagues in Paris by wire, he would do what France has never done before : propose a definite date for the evacuation. Before M. Briand's morrow dawned fresh hurling of ultimata back and forth in the financial section of the Conference (see below) had so incensed French public opinion that the French Prime Minister was obliged to retreat. Calling personally on Dr. Stresemann he explained that "pour le moment, I can get no date to announce...
...usually a recitation of facts almost as formal as the Litany. The nature of the business, its earnings, the equity of the securities, the purpose to which the proceeds of the offering will be put (whether acquisition of new properties, enlargement of factories, new equipment) are all set forth...
...apiece. The company which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...
...Youth rose up invincible when John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, new British doubles champions, met Cochet & Borotra. Winning 6-1, 8-6, 6-4, they stood forth as the most smooth-running doubles team in the game today...