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...been urging E. A. T. to buy out Ludington. Negotiations last year got nowhere. Finally, the story goes, the Postmaster General threatened to give Ludington a mail contract unless E. A. T. bought. E. A. T. bought last week, announced it would maintain all Ludington schedules except Washington-Norfolk, which E. A. T. already served. Thus passed, as Cord's Century Lines passed a year ago, another of the "independents" into the Big Four of U. S. airlines...
...Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some of the early American reproductions made in her furniture shop at Hyde Park. Mrs. Hoover...
...some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been 400 mi. in diameter. It nicked the Earth from northwest to southeast, scoured...
...Norfolk, England, lives an old woman with 20 spoons. The handles of twisted silver, ten small spoons are made of the fingernails of her late husband, ten large spoons of his toenails...
...Seattle, Washington; Charles Rupp, Jr. 4M, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carlton Remsberg Souders 4M, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Douglas Aykroyd Sunderland 2M, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; William Graham Thompson 4M, of Andover; William Louis Wallbank 2M, of New Britain, Connecticut; Henry Stanley Warren 2M, of Melrose Highlands; Meyer Richard Whitehill 3M, of Norfolk, Virginia; Robert Wallace Wilkins 4M, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Robert Ory Wilson 4M, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut; Hays Richman Yandell 4M, of San Antonio, Texas...