Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment was that from the time Calvin Coolidge was president of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than Mr. Coolidge...
...dwelt on modernization of inland waterways as the best relief from high railroad rates: "By modernization, I mean increasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This Administration has authorized the systematic undertaking of this modernization. Within a few years we will have completed the deepening of the Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Illinois to Chicago...
Philip A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., went to a ship, the Virginia (Panama Pacific Line), the largest steamer ever built in the U. S. (thirtyfour thousand tons). He went to look, not to ride; the vessel will not operate until December...
Such an accident disabled two of the four turbines of the Ile de France, in the harbor of Havre last Fall; and she did not sail again until Spring. But, in the words of the goaded French Line: "Various giant liners, of various lines, have suffered this unavoidable misfortune. ... It is to be hoped that there will soon be an end to the unauthentic . . . unwarranted . . . utterly false . . . rumors . . . now coming, we presume, from sources interested in undermining the position of our new flagship. . . . The turbines of the Ile de France were built in England by the most famous manufacturers...
Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter Sherman Gifford of A. T. & T. announced the signing of important nonexclusive contracts with Western Union. Telegrams may now be sent over long-distance telephone wires. Also at the service of Western Union for transmission of facsimile messages, is A. T. & T.'s telephoto system. To many, these contracts presaged the gradual scrapping of the Western Union plant and ever-increasing reliance on the service...