Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average steamer time from dock to dock, New York to San Francisco is 18 days, time between steamers in addition. True, we have 16-day delivery by Panama Pacific Line steamers, California, Virginia and soon the Pennsylvania, but sailing every 14 days, the average becomes much longer...
...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
...drinks at Tokyo gave Commander Hugo Eckener indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...
...Prohibition is a noble experiment, then the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood also should be listed among the noble experiments of our national history...
...Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...