Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despatches juxtaposed with news of the victims, told that U. S. travelers were responsible for a record week of flying between London and Paris -1,539 passengers in 183 machines, with 35 tons of freight and baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers...
...fate of Floyd Collins, A lad we all knew well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan...
...unfilled orders are 3,620,352. On the Stock Exchange U. S. Steel quotations danced to 156% last week, their record high. Some stock buying speculated on a dividend distribution, some on U. S. Steel's excellent business. At Duluth, iron ore shipments this season are calculated to reach fully 55,000,000 tons, 1,000,000 more than last year...
Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn...
...every variation of pace and length, to tire him against the doubles later in the day. Mr. White had evidently made up his mind not to be a sacrifice. He never ran after his opponent's placements, but did what he could with the shots that came within reach. If he had used every ounce of his stamina he might have taken one set. As it was, he lost, 3-6, 4-6, 3-6, but had his revenge in the doubles when he and Thalheimer, another Texan, gave Champion Tilden...