Word: southwesterner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will be Pensacola...
...wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture the southwestern coast of Italy. The "Blue" fleet based on Sicily will attempt to hold off the invaders. Premier Mussolini was too busy to be present...
Last week, doughty Canadian and U. S. clamberers under the leadership of Captain A. H. McCarthy, British-Columbian rancher, returned from a successful clamber to the pinnacle of Mount Logan (in the southwestern corner of the Province of Yukon, Canada...
...first to reach and explore the northern, eastern, and southern shores of North Cornwall and the first to reach Finlay Land, seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some 7,000 Norsemen, but since they have since completely disappeared, apparently without reason. At the present time there are two theories as to their disappearance. One is that the Norsemen were wiped...
...family has spread, but hardly aggrandized itself. All but one of the railroads controlled by Jay has slipped from their grasp. Last week, Edwin, second son of the great Jay, let it be known that even that had gone- control of the St. Louis Southwestern was sold to the Rock Island...