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...twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction on the Canadian National Railways. Another $25,000,000 went toward fitting up Churchill as a port, building a 2,500,000-bu. grain elevator (TIME, Sept...
...danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...
Died. Julia Field, 80, relict of Poet Eugene Field; of heart attack; in her Heafford Junction, Wis. home which two weeks ago was threatened by mortgage foreclosure, saved when Field's college fraternity raised $3,000 (TIME, June...
When her husband died in 1895, Mrs. Eugene Field settled in Chicago with a tidy little fortune, a steady income from royalties accruing from the famed children's poet's works. In 1921. after fire damaged her house, she moved north to Heafford Junction, Wis., where she paid $60,000 for 155 woodsy acres with a barn, five cottages, a boxlike house of cement blocks overlooking Crystal Lake. To augment her income as royalties dwindled, she rented the land to farmers, the cottages to tourists. Pinched by Depression, she had to take out a mortgage, planned...
...wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical ten miles out, 60 feet above ground at field edge, 15 feet above at field-centre. When the pilot has put his plane squarely on the junction of these two beams, he turns the control over to the robot which brings the plane down the invisible slope to a landing. All the human pilot does is to handle the throttle, watch the instruments, apply the brakes when the wheels touch...