Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...
General Manager Leo M. Rumeley of General Motors last week wished to show all G. M. C. foreign dealers the photograph of the season's new-model Cadillac. Aware of current communication methods, he despatched a messenger with a picture from Detroit to Cleveland. In Cleveland the Bell System put the picture on its telephoto wires to Manhattan and to San Francisco...
...York newspaper capital reached out and acquired the St. Paul Dispatch and the Pioneer Press, which St. Paul reads mornings. Three brothers Ridder and Leo E. Owens, publishers of the Journal of Commerce, Manhattan, the New York Staats-Zeitung Herald (German daily) and the Jamaica (L. I.) Press are the new owners. They announce no change of policy in St. Paul. The St. Paul News is the other daily newspaper of that city. Minneapolis, rival city across the Mississippi River, has the Daily Star, Tribune and Journal...
...strokes behind through the early rounds. On the 524 yard 13th on his final round he put a brassie on the green and holed the putt for a 3. This eagle threw him ahead of the field, and as he finished in careful figures, won the title. Leo Diegel and Billy Burke, Greenwich, Conn., broke the course record with 68, five under par. The first Canadian to finish was Andy Kay, Lambton. eleventh...
...some travelers the International Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...