Word: southward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
...Southward bound for the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta last week were Charles Delos Waggoner who cunningly schemed $500,000 out of six Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16) and George Graham Rice, arch U. S. promoter.* Also last week were broadcast charges which, if proven, may send other schemers to cells...
...prudently debarked through a double file of his famed Wampoa cadets, the best antidote in China to assassination. Far into the night he studied maps, despatches, tried to gauge the strategy and numbers of the so-called "People's Army" which for several months has been advancing slowly southward along the railway from the region of Peiping (once Peking). Next day the president set off by armored train for the battle area, near Chengohow. Subsequent despatches reported quaintly that "the Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing at present for geographical reasons." Startling was a Japanese...
...Graf Zeppelin was to return to Germany and thence continue on for a world flight by way of Tokyo, Los Angeles, Lakehurst (again) to Friedrichshafen (again). On the Pacific leg she will fly cautiously near land, north up the Japanese coast, then eastward along the Aleutian Islands, then southward along the North American coast. The Atlantic crossing will be fairly direct to Europe as it was last week, as it was last October (TIME, Oct. 22). The Graf Zeppelin will carry mail from Lakehurst around the world to Los Angeles for $3.55 an ounce...