Word: shores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While those projects were being made presentable for the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval, the Pennsylvania remained remarkably quiet. Last week, through its Baltimore Sun agent, it demanded: " 1) A line paralleling the N. Y. C. along the Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...results of his per sistent excavations in limestone quarries near Ipswich, East Anglia. Flint tools found in a pre-Pliocene layer indicated that the history of man stretches much further back than is supposed. The site was northwards of the site where the Piltdown Man was discovered, on the shore of a warm North Sea which then had no outlet channel between France and England...
...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
...show in a later message: "Receiving set on the bum .... don't worry me," but still the sender signed a jaunty, "So long." Early in the second day fog-fear had them fairly. Flying through or above obscurity, they had not seen the Pacific since they left shore. Head winds had slowed them down badly. Evidently they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline. They said they were about 700 miles from Hawaii and added, "Only enough gas for one more hour. S. O. S. S. O. S. S. O. S." Then within 30 minutes, they...
Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...