Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind blew south and east, hurrying twelve huge inflated bags from Detroit to various spots remote and obscure in the Virginias. One great gas bubble, more enterprising than the rest, floated across the border and came to rest in North Carolina. Another settled in a dead tree on a hillside in the Blue Ridge Mountains...
Piloting the bag which reached North Carolina was Frenchman Charles Dollfus. But the airline distance from Detroit to Walnut Cove, N. C., is only 447.9 miles, 11.5 miles less than the distance from Detroit to Chase City, Va., where German Hugo Kaulen ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...
...degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city. Omaha seemed clearly destined to be an imperial, or at least victorious, city...
Paper. Kimberly-Clark Co. manufactures rotogravure paper for 80% of the newspapers and magazines in North and South America, also controls the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., Ltd. (50% of its production is for the N. Y. Times). Last week, the two companies were reorganized under the name of the Kimberly-Clark Corp...