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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cuyamel. Last week, also Central Americans heard that United Fruit Co. already the most important single factor in their trade, might become an even greater, more potent unit. From New Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...
...estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will be able to carry 500 passengers, 104 crew. Aerodynamic calculations suggest that they should be able to fly so high, so powerfully that reduced wind resistance will enable them to flit between Manhattan and London in six hours...
...suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge Whist Club. The winners had used the new forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third. Of all the teams in the room, only the one on which Mr. Vanderbilt played used his convention. He finished tied with another team in fifth place...
...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?...