Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced by M. Poincaré, prior to his recent sweeping victory at the general election (TIME, May 7), the present Conversion Loan is a firm preliminary step toward eventual restoration of the stabilized franc to a gold basis...
Passengers will board a train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Manhattan at 6:05 p. m. Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes...
Going the other way, passengers will leave Los Angeles by plane at 8:30 a. m., arrive in Manhattan by train 48 hours later. Thus, the same plan of flying by day and railroading by night will be followed in both directions. This will, no doubt, comfort nervous passengers who might not like the sky at night, and please scenic lovers who might like the view by day. Also, greater safety will be achieved by the elimination of night flying. The treacherous Alleghany mountains will be crossed by train, in both directions...
Julian L. Eysmans and Daniel M. Scheaffer, representing the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Married. Major M. Robert Guggenheim, 42, husband successively of Grace Bernheimer and Margaret G. M. Weyher, son of famed Manhattan philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim, who gave $2,000,000 to advance U. S. aviation; to Elizabeth Eaton, 25, of Babylon, L. I.; in Baltimore...