Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dairy. Pig-raising was the first, Penney Stores the most profitable, of the business ventures of James Cash Penney. Famed as a livestock breeder, Mr. Penney includes as diversion large scale, scientific farming. Biggest of his farming projects is Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...
...Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep her girls well scattered geographically, taking only the cream of the applicants from Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington and the South...
...have his plutonic laboratories. Ph. D. moles would record the pulsations of the earth's crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They might learn the source of that heat...
...flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert from Deception Island over a section of Antarctica (TIME, Dec. 31). This winter he was to fly over the South Pole, but preferred to organize Alaska Airways Corp. for The Aviation Corp.* Last month Eielson flew to the rescue of two icebound fur ships. One trip was made successfully (TIME, Nov. 25). On the next trip he disappeared. Friends did not despair. They recalled Eielson's forced landing...
...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...