Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
...days earlier, in an address at Philadelphia, Secretary Young had deplored the prevalence of conflicting air commerce laws enacted by state and local governments as "impeding the industry." Possibly with New Jersey's prohibition of seaplane landings on inland lakes (TIME, Sept. 29) in mind, he said: "The only solution is for the states to relinquish all rights to regulate flying and entrust the Federal Government with the development of this industry...
...Federal District Court at St. Paul last week rang to the sound of big figures, big names. A widow filed suit against Inland Steel Co., Great Northern Railway Co. for patent infringement, filed similar suits against U. S. Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries Carnegie Steel Co., U. S. Steel Products Co. Five hundred million dollars -a half-billion-is the total of her claims, but the figure's reverberations seemed to have a hollow ring...
...Kingsley Ryan, graduate of St. Paul College of Law, not yet admitted to the bar. Difficult indeed is Neophyte Ryan's first case. Exhibit models of the bolts are not readily understandable to laymen; as evidence he has introduced cinemas of nuts and bolts being made at Inland Steel's works. Among the formidable witnesses scheduled to appear against Mrs. Ryan are Louis Warren Hill, director of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific, Clive T. Jaffray, president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway...
...Spencer Smith, president of the Board of Commerce & Navigation, stated his case: inland lakes are constantly used by small boats. Aircraft taking off and alighting endanger the lives of the boaters. The ban does not extend to rivers...