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...express cut was made on routes to 117 cities served (for pick-up and delivery ) by Railway Express Agency. Sole purpose: to increase the business which last year totaled only 286,798 Ib. for all airlines; first nine months...
...right-hand side of the piano, in a space left empty by shortening the strings, is an amplifier. To it is attached a loudspeaker. These may also be used for phonograph or radio reception (with pick-up or aerial). A dial by the keyboard regulates the volume of sound in eleven degrees of loudness. If the loudspeaker is turned off, the "Claviphone" tinkles like a spinet. Turned on full force, it will fill a large hall. Once you have set the dial for a certain volume, you may vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal...
...special assistant to Secretary of Labor Doak to expand the existing Federal Employment service with an extra $500,000 allowed by Congress. Meanwhile Secretary Doak, reporting an increase in February employment over January, declared: "It looks to me like the first sign of a general pick-up in industry...
...settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene himself, were the gilded antlers that go to the "fastest packet on the Ohio river." From the wheelhouse...
...Green has shown a quick pick-up over its early season form. On its spring trip prospects looked discouraging after it dropped its first four games. Coach Tesreau changed the line-up but the revised team lost its first game to the Elis after returning home. Another change in the line-up followed and since then it has won successively over Wesleyan, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Princeton. Now the team leads the Eastern League with a record of five games won and only one official defeat...