Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connect the main island to the parkway with four new bridges...
When Moses Louis Annenberg two years ago produced $15,000,000 in cash and bought himself the 107-year-old Republican Philadelphia Inquirer, the Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices...
...Chicago Airport, at the start of one evening's rush hour, suddenly went black. A main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...
...There isn't a first boat actually," Coach Tom Bolles said yesterday, describing the opening of the 1938 fall crew season. "During this time the main emphasis will be placed on individual technique...
Kansas City Southern owns 788 miles of main-line track between Kansas City and the Gulf of Mexico, carries coal, oil and farm products mainly originating in other territories. L.& A. owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...