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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorer Byrd, at Dunedin, last week,, was 3,000 miles from the South Pole. That does not seem far. Yet Portland, Ore., and Millinocket, Me., are 3,000 miles from the North Pole; so too Lyons, France, and Venice, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...broadcasting of the changing conditions governing football between the Crimson and Blue teams will begin at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow night over stations WEAF, New York City; WEEI, Boston; WTIC, Hartford, Conn.; WJAR, Providence, R. I.; WTAG, Worcester; WCSH, Portland, Maine; WGY, Schenectady, N. Y. and WGR, Buffalo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF HARVARD-YALE FOOTBALL TO BE BROADCAST | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Stumping up the Pacific Coast to Portland. Ore., Nominee Robinson turned east again last week. At Boise, Idaho, hometown of bearlike Senator Borah, he indulged in one of the most violent utterances of the campaign. Marking the difference between Borah the intellectually upright Senator and Borah the stump orator, Robinson cried: "The lone eagle abruptly ends his flight toward heavenly Utopia and swoops to perch himself on the filthy boughs with vultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Paint. Nine paint manufacturers on the Pacific Coast have agreed to merge. They are at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. E. H. Rollins & Sons of San Francisco are the financiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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