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...main attraction of the voyage will be the three days in Berlin, from August 7 to August 10, during the Olympic Games. Members desiring to spend more time here may rejoin the main party at Hamburg, or travel overland to Rotterdam or Paris. In any case, opportunity will be granted to attend the Olympic Yacht Races on August...
...anniversary of his father's death. Mr. Phillips, who had not read the works of early travelers sufficiently to realize what this meant, decided to go in anyway. With a party of eight white men, completely unarmed, he left the Benin River on Jan. 4, 1897 and started overland for Benin City. A volley of shots rang out when a Mr. Locke bent over to tie his shoelaces. All but two men in the party were brutally slaughtered. By Feb. 17, a punitive expedition, complete with an admiral. 500 troops, five Maxim guns and a 7-year-old native...
...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...
...primarily a truck maker, in 1934 turning out only 3,854 passenger cars as against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business but passenger-car sales thus far in 1935 have barely passed last year's total. Willys-Overland, in receivership since February 1933, sold its Canadian plant, and a subsidiary in Elmira, N.Y. has been seized by the sheriff for nonpayment of taxes...
...accounts two, three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them on time. Helped by his oldtime experience as an overland mail contractor. Publisher Cowles studied maps and railroad timetables, learned the location of every town and hamlet in Iowa, memorized the schedules of every train out of Des Moines. As the Register circulation machine began to work, a Register-habit grew steadily throughout the State...