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...overnight stop. But beginning this week (April 1) through service with trimotored passenger planes is open to everyone, by virtue of new schedules on National Air Transport (New York-Chicago) and Boeing Air Transport (Chicago-San Francisco). Passengers leaving New York about 9 a. m. transfer at Chicago in midafternoon, fly all night (in darkness over lighted airway from Iowa City to Salt Lake City) to land in San Francisco shortly after noon (31 hr.). Eastbound passengers take off about noon, fly in darkness from Salt Lake City to Omaha, reach Chicago at 11 a. m., New York in early...
...into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...
...summer, horses on Washington streets heave and collapse. Eggs are fried on the northwest corner of 14th street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Idlers gather about the Weather Bureau's kiosk 100 yards away to watch the thermometer break 100° at midafternoon. Downtown streets are virtually deserted from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. Men-in-the-street go about in their shirt sleeves...
Nearing shore in the midafternoon, a seaplane, like a dove of peace, was loosed from the Texas. Cuban planes swept out to meet it. All ships in the harbor tied their whistles open. In steamed the Texas and dropped anchor near to where the Maine was blown...
...course has acquired, in the last three years, a legend of invincibility; people thought that Penn had a good crew, but not good enough; Columbia was not in it. In a wash of golden light that would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand in his pocket, produced a red handkerchief and waved it, once; the Yale shell went up; Yale...