Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average...
...Istanbul and carried home captive. The Crack Up. Such disgrace followed, by only a few years, public honors. In 1931, on the 50th anniversary of Insull's arrival in the U. S., Owen Young, John Barton Payne, Charles Gates Dawes, Reginald McKenna (chairman of Britain's Midland Bank), Charles Steele (Morgan partner), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance). Gerard Swope and James A. Farrell sent tributes to the English-born immigrant who had achieved great things in his adopted country. But even then Sam Insull's pedestal of fame and fortune was tottering. His trouble dated back...
From their grimy Midland factory towns, the late Enoch Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...
...Like everyone else, Mr. Jones has suffered a sharp shrinkage in his fortune. Of the 70-odd real estate holding companies in which he is interested, some have defaulted. Last November the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigated authorization of two RFC loans, totalling $1,500,000 to Midland Mortgage Co., subsidiary of Bankers Mortgage Co. which Mr. Jones founded. Mr. Jones was able to show that he had severed connection with the company when he joined...
Pleading "not guilty" last week Claimant Gordon-Haddon plaintively remarked: "I never had any criminal intention," was released in ?100 bail. ¶To the crew of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway's sample Royal Scot express train which last summer steamed around Canada and the U. S. and was exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22), George V sent written congratulations which were read last week by L. M. S. Chairman Sir Josiah Stamp as the far-wandering Scot steamed into Euston Station...