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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Endurance Attempts. The Question Mark stayed in the air 150 hrs. (TIME, Jan. 14). The Fort Worth stayed up 172½ hrs. (TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field...
...said Captain Rowland H. Macy, onetime whaling skipper, then a storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years of steady growth with the purchase of L. Bamberger & Co., potent Newark department store. Macy's 1928 sales* were $90,251,396; Bamberger's were $35,001,214. The 1929 sales of the two stores are expected to reach $140,000,000. The 1928 net income of the combination was approximately...
...capacity of the U. S., supplying 20 million U. S. inhabitants with light and power. It has also built many an office building, factory, hotel, and the present Massachusetts Institute of Technology building in Cambridge. Directorate of the new company will include Joseph P. Grace, Board Chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. ; Albert H. Wiggin, Board Chairman of Chase National Bank; Herbert L. Pratt, Board Chairman of Standard Oil of New York...
Along the right of way of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. grows many a carefully-tended flower bed. The crossing watchmen must keep their little shacks trim and orderly, the engineers must carry repair kits and act as veterinaries for minor ailments of their Iron Horses. But all D. T. & I. employes are happy to do extra chores for they are paid above the standard railway scale...
Last week, however, the D. T. & I. flowers drooped slightly and the employes were somewhat perturbed. The big-lettered F O R D on D. T. & I. bridges was destined soon to disappear. Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...