Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EDWARD FRANCIS SULLIVAN Oakland, Calif...
Arthur Ingraham, Jr. '30, of Oakland, Rhode Island, has been elected captain of the Harvard tennis team for the ensuing year, succeeding B. H. Whitbeck '29, it was announced last night. The election, as is customary, is subject to the approval of the athletic committee...
...night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night-saving one business...
...other day I flew up from Oakland to Seattle and TIME was my "upstairs" companion, and, as usual, I enjoyed it from "cover to cover." Out of 25 magazines I get, TIME is my favorite...
Back and forth through the Panama Canal a staunch new freight boat will soon shuttle between Hamburg, Germany, and Oakland, California. Last week roving Mayor John L. Davie of Oakland was in Germany to christen the new freighter Oakland. On his way to Hamburg from Madrid, he stopped at Paris. Sympathetic correspondents reported his observations as follows...