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Word: lines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general plan calls for 19 U. S. systems and two supplementary systems composed of Canadian lines entering the country. It implies a managerial unification of systems as well as financial consolidation. The Commission's prime principle was to maintain competition between systems rather than between individual roads. In each system were grouped many a short line, controlled tributary and leased feeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Wabash-Lehigh Valley, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Western Maryland. Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western. Seaboard Air Line, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along that line, I wish you would advise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Closed Portal | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their sales list in the twelve American retail stores, in the hope that dwindling piano sales might be offset. But the high price of pianos has not been able to compete with the comparatively low price of radios and phonographs. Since 1924 when total U. S. shipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piano Glissando | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Passenger. Fred Warren Green, Michigan's Governor, proudly held Ticket No. 100,000 for a flight from Detroit to Cleveland on the regular run of the Stout Air Lines. Last year he used ticket No. 50,000 on the same line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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