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...Illinois and Missouri. Distribution will be carried out by a new Missouri-Kansas company, Panhandle Eastern Co., with a potential daily capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet of gas. But Missouri-Kansas will need many a new gas field, and many a new customer before it can surpass the 1929 record of the biggest U. S. natural gas corporation- Columbia Gas & Electric. Last year Columbia sold 144.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas to 1,000,000 customers...
...committee headed by R. C. Floyd has made plans for an evening which is expected to even surpass the great fiftieth anniversary dinner held in 1926. Floyd has sent invitations to 6,000 former athletes and friends of the I. C. 4A., and has made it clear that any track follower may attend the dinner...
Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising-horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia-with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28).† Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached...
...which Mr. Astor has turned his money and his attention, operates 24 motor ships between U. S. points on the Atlantic and Australia, India, and the Far East. It is important but not dominant in the field of American shipping. Both the Dollar and the United States lines surpass it in tonnage and revenue. But the Roosevelt Line is rapidly developing into a competitor to be reckoned with by the two older giants. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore the Great, organized the Roosevelt Line in 1920 to operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board...
Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...