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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
Last week Pullman Co. announced a plan to help compensate itself for the loss of a million and a half berth passengers On May 1 it will reduce its rates 22% on sections (upper and lower berths combined). It hopes single passengers, to get privacy by day, air and space by night, will buy sections instead of lowers, thus supply revenue from otherwise empty profitless uppers. Present section rate New York-Chicago: $16.20. New section rate...
Round about Fez, Morocco, where the fez was invented and is still worn, thousands of drums began to beat monotonously one night last week, thousands of pipes to squeal, and a million Morocco Negroes to cavort and celebrate the 240th anniversary of the mass marriage from which they all sprang...
Among the million-odd descendants of the mass marriage who celebrated its anniversary last week, none are more famed than the "Senegalese Black Guard," all six feet tall and black as ebony. Night and day they guard the person of Morocco's present Sultan, sparse-bearded, 19- year-old Sidi Mohammed (TIME...
...advantages offered by other universities." This terse appraisal of William Henry Welch, "Dean of American Medicine," by the powers of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920, netted Johns Hopkins $7,000,000 much sought after by other universities, to found its School of Hygiene and Public Health. Many another loose million has been lured to Johns Hopkins to be converted into buildings, laboratories, endowment by the scientific and diplomatic prowess of energetic Octogenarian Welch...