Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statement in your Aug. 7 issue commenting on "Tahoe Takeoff" that "it takes 10 hr. of arduous driving to make the trip by motor" from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe is entirely erroneous. A very comfortable trip, including time on ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley, and a stop for luncheon or dinner on the way, is eight hours. Five or six hours if in a hurry and no stop for meal. Distance only 220 mi., splendid highway, but ferry kills valuable time...
...obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim to his persuasiveness until he starts on a non-stop flight around the world. Then she switches her affection to Droste who sails off in his completed seadrome. When Ellissen reappears, he concludes that Claire and Droste have been deceiving him, ignores the plaintive bleating of the seadrome's S. O. S. At last he picks up Claire and flies...
...against such outrageous newspaper conduct finds himself the storm centre of a lot of trumped-up charges. 'Oh,' says the yellow editor, 'you won't give us a break, hey? All right, we'll get you and get you good!' . . ." How put a stop to gangster pressagentry? Editor Bingay proposed an ambitious scheme: "The only way to get at the publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their...
...unmasked bandits entered Booneville's Citizens Bank one evening at 6:30 and made their exit with $2,000 in cash. In firing Cashier Williams, Bank Commissioner Wasson explained: "Bank robberies in Arkansas are going to stop. . . . We are determined that the profit shall be taken out of robbing banks...
...estates. He backed his young nephew, William Larimer Mellon, in the oil business. John D. Rockefeller was driving all rivals to the wall. The Mellons planned, then built in haste a pipe line from their wells in Western Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to the Delaware River. Rockefeller, who had stopped others, could not stop this swift, calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew was 40. The next decade, the decade of the Spanish War, was greater...