Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Union Pacific . . . . . $10,408,700 $13,459,697 Southern Pacific . . . 16,910,298 21,048,788 Northern Pacific . . . 6,283,241 6,062,176 Lehigh Valley . . . . . 3,483,799 4,810,979 Norfolk & Western . . 10,772,349 15,311,631 Missouri Pacific . . . 7,284,129 8,039,157 Lackawanna...
...Southern Crossers Flayed. Two men died this spring hunting to rescue Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm and their crew of the Southern Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were...
Many a U. S. railroad last week reported on its first five months of 1929. Roads in general showed incomes considerably increased over the corresponding period in 1928. Largest increase in net operating income was enjoyed by Norfolk & Western, largest net operating income by Southern Pacific. One of the few roads reporting decrease in net operating income was Northern Net Pacific, Figures on large roads reporting were...
...Webster contract was a second job for Paperman Warren, to build a power plant that would carry 1,000 h.p. for seven miles at 1,000 volts. Such a plant seemed then a great project, though since that time Stone & Webster have constructed such power plants as that of Southern California Edison, which carries 250,000 h.p. for 250 miles at 250,000 volts...
...Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Thomas Aycock, Yale University; at Deal, N. J. Intercollegiate Team Championship-Won by Princeton University; at Deal. Tennis. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Berkeley Bell, University of Texas; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia Country Club. Polo. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Harvard University; at Philadelphia...