Word: overland
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...hope that justice is waiting." In lighter vein he deplored missing the Kid Chocolate-Tony Canzoneri fight, an inconvenience which he palliated by going to the Southern California-Notre Dame football game at South Bend, Ind. (see p. 23). His brief for Prisoner Mooney, he prepared aboard the Overland Limited between Chicago and San Francisco...
...First white correspondent to reach General Ma was small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...
...great wheatfields of the Canadian Northwest passes through Hudson Bay. European ships have slipped in and out of Hudson Bay since the 17th Century. For the past 50 years there has been agitation for a railway and port on the Bay to take out wheat without sending it overland 1,000 miles farther to Montreal. When Canadians began to work seriously on the problem it was discovered that there were only two possible ports on the western side of Hudson Bay: Port Nelson, at the mouth of the tidal Nelson River, and Fort Churchill, at the emptying of Churchill River...
...Ohio Banks, called together more than 100 frightened country bankers who were hit by the trouble, tried to calm them. From neighboring States, 100 bank examiners set out to help straighten Toledo's muddle. Brokers widely discussed the possible effect on control of Toledo's Willys-Overland Co., many of whose shares were held as collateral by the closed banks. As usual, assurances were made that there would be speedy reorganizations...
...against $1,030,000. Hupmobile lost $1,077,000 whereas in the first half of last year it made $509,000. Chrysler Corp.'s statement was remarkable for the reductions shown in costs and expenses, but its $2,252,000 compared with $3,408,000. Willys-Overland showed great recuperation with $304,000 against $151,000, despite the fact that last year it included $1,400,000 special income...