Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Christmas night the University Instrumental Clubs will entrain from the South Station on their annual Christmas trip. The group will be composed of 51 men, including managers, a doctor, and a graduate member who will act in a advisory capacity. The schedule, aside from the regular concerts includes many divertisements designed to fill up, the odd hours intervening between the train and the concert hall...
TIME readers in Rhode Island will understand why Aram J. Pothier, once Governor of Rhode Island, was not among the New England Governors present at ceremonies in the new North Station in Boston...
...telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped from...
...request that there be no "repetition of the violation of Paraguayan territory by a Bolivian force." Thereupon the Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four p. m." Within a few hours the Paraguayan Government similarly kicked the Bolivian Minister out of Asuncion with the statement that "in the face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before...
...ethics. Concerning only the marketing of oil, the code consisted of 19 articles, most of which dealt with relations between "refiner, wholesaler, distributor and jobber" and the "retailer." As gasoline is by far the most important petroleum product, particularly for U. S. consumption, the "retailer" is usually the filling station owner and the code deals chiefly with unfair methods of securing filling station distribution. It says that the wholesaler should not lease pumps, tanks or other equipment; should not pay the retailer's rent, put up his buildings, lease him land at nominal rentals, or loan him money...