Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Homer Galpin, chairman of the Republican county central committee, said that he would be in charge of the Republican campaign in Cook County and then went north for a vacation in Wisconsin...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
Oceanology. The hottest part of the Atlantic Ocean runs about 350 miles (5°) north of the Equator, from Africa to South America. Carribbean waters are just as warm (80° F.). Almost as warm, and much higher in level than the open ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. The combination of Gulf temperature and level with the West Indies volcanic action and the twirling of the Earth sets a current of warm water running north along the American coast to Newfoundland-the Gulf Stream. A wall of cold water separates the Gulf Stream from the North American continent...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
Banks. Dr. Charles E. Beury, president of Temple University and of the National Bank of North Philadelphia, last week became chairman of the newly-organized Philadelphia Bank and Trust Co. Component parts of the new $23,000,000 bank are: National Bank of North Philadelphia, Oak Lane Trust Co., Queen Lane National Bank, Broad Street National Bank...