Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance to New Englanders except as it is an indication of the commercial side of their railroad problem. Freight shipments originating in the Boston area, or being transferred from Boston's busy waterfront, destined for the Middle or Far West, may take their choice of accomplishing the first lap (Chicago) on a through-freight via B. & A., or routing by stages starting over one or two carriers from Boston. Reverse traffic is similarly confronted...
...week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through the ice on Lake St. Clair in five feet of water, had to be hauled ashore and dried off. Eighteen flyers completed the first lap of their journey, landing at Duluth. Minn. They dined with the mayor, city officials and the Chamber of Commerce. The four transports were at various stages of the first lap. One was forced back. The bedraggled radio plane got as far as St. Ignace. Mich.; two more got to Munising...