Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the dinky, vicinal railroads whose earnings did not warrant their existence a "cancerous growth" on the U. S. transportation system. He advocated that 30,000 miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...
...last week did not improve such arrangements as the city fathers of Philadelphia had made for the biggest aeronautical event of the year, the National Air Races. The fathers had selected a tract of land called Model Farms, four feet below the level of the Delaware River on the southwest edge of town. Last week pilots and spectators concluded that it was a model farm for rice-growing only...
Races. To the southwest corner of Philadelphia, at an establishment called Model Farms, flocked planes from far and near for the National Air Races...
...Jungle stretches southwest out of the business section. Here are factories, dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...
Meteorologist William H. Hoover was recalled from a solar observatory in the Argentine to travel to Mt. Brukkaros in Southwest Africa where Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for the Institution's first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable...