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...rich coal and farming country, near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
...converted its 380-mi. crude oil pipe from Negley, Ohio to Bayonne, N. J., into a gasoline line. Most important of proposed gasoline pipe lines are: Magnolia Petroleum Co.'s go-mi, three-inch line from Luling, Tex. to San Antonio; Sun Oil Co.'s 500-mi. Susquehanna line from Marcus Hook, Pa. to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron; Phillips Petroleum Co.'s 800-mi. line from Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Kansas City...
...mean that the B. & O. accepted the Interstate Commerce Commission's plan, that it would shortly file a new application to execute the consolidation the Commission had mapped out for it. Roads in the Commission's B. & O. merger: Reading, Jersey Central, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Susquehanna, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (½), Chicago & Alton, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville...
...Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Airport covers an area of 127 acres. It lies three miles north of the centre of business activity between the Sullivan Trail and the Susquehanna River thus accommodating land or sea planes and Amphibians. Our $40,000 brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships?two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
President Taft summoned District Attorney Stimson across the Hudson. Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...