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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brunner-Winkle Bird - and flew past him again, again, again. She was willing to do that all night, for she was trying for a new woman's solo record. The old record, made by one Bobby Trout on New Year's Day in California, was 12 hr., n min. After several hours, Miss Smith began to sing - every song she could remember. That was not insouciance at the moon's stare but a way of keeping warm and awake. By and by the moon set. After 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. in the air alone, Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Girl under Moon | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington, Del. The B. & O. is already heavily loaded with Reading securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: B. & O. Merger | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., spunky publisher of 16 newspapers,* cocked, last week, an eye to the future. In Manhattan, he told the Advertising Club about two machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Photo-Composting | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Harvard University defeated Walkover Club, 5 to 0. G. T. Francis ocC, defeated F. Parmenter, 15-7, 15-11, 15-10. S. B. Myers '29 defeated W. Keith, 15-11, 15-12, 18-7; N. F. Glidden '31 defeated C. Peterson, 10-15, 16-11, 17-15, 16-14; F. M. Shelton '31 defeated L. Johnson, 15-8, 15-12, 15-5; Burton Richardson '29 won by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAMS B AND C WIN MATCHES WHILE 1932 IS DEFEATED | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Harvard University defeated Harvard Medical School, 4 to 1. D. F. Davis '30 defeated D. Merrill (HM), 15-6, 8-15, 16-17, 15-18, 15-6; J. N. Robinson (HM) defeated Caleb Cauman '30, 18-15, 14-18, 15-12, 5-15, 15-10; C. H. Kawakami '30 defeated A. Harris (HM), 15-0, 15-9, 15-9; J. C. Potter '30 defeated J. L. Caughey (HM), 15-12, 12-15, 15-2, 2-15, 15-12; Henry Lockhart ocC defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAMS B AND C WIN MATCHES WHILE 1932 IS DEFEATED | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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