Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snowing when President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge left Washington. When they awoke, a bright splash of sunlight was spilled over their coverlets. They were, like many another personage,* in the South again...
...South Pole, as everyone knows, was discovered many years ago (Dec. 14, 1911, Amundsen...
...avowed purpose of Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to Antarctica is to increase man's knowledge of the South Pole and its surroundings. Thorough, the expedition has only begun a two-year plan of attack by boat, plane, sled, foot. Never before has an expedition been so carefully, so richly equipped. Never before has the leader been in such efficient communication with the rest of the world. Day by day, month by month, five men at wireless stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, have been and will be receiving messages from Little America, Bay of Whales, Antarctica...
...Reading R. R. and the Reading's subsidiary, Central R. R. of New Jersey. Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington, Del. The B. & O. is already heavily loaded with Reading securities...
Shipping Merger. Probable sale of United States and American Merchant Lines to P. W. Chapman & Co. inspired a rumor that Mr. Chapman will next proceed to acquire the Munson Steamship Line, ships of which sail from U. S. to South American ports. Both Chapman and Munson interests, however, sharply denied this rumor...