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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This mountain in western Massachusetts has among its trails the well known Thunderbolt run, one of the fastest racing trails and a rival of the Ravine trail and Hell's Highway. A network of seven trails covers the mountain and skiing lasts into March on the northerly slopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...longest skiing season in New England is at Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. A new ski tow has been installed and open slopes have been cleared on the lower part of the mountain. Chin Clip, Smuggler's Notch, and Nose Dive trails are all expert runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...makes money. Not the least of United's prides has been its record on its most popular run-the 363 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since acquiring twin-motored transports seven years ago. United has flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York and Philadelphia. Pacific businessmen fly United as naturally as they take taxis. Until last week they had no other cause for complaint than that United pilots, nonchalant from long experience, sometimes skimmed startlingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tehachapi Toll | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Except for the meteors which plunge into Earth's atmosphere, the tiniest known body in the heavens is Anteros, a sort of "flying mountain" only one-third of a mile across which was discovered last February by Dr. E. Delporte of Belgium after it had approached within 2,000,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sky Men | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Uneasy Christmas | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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