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...elaborate plan to extend the Cambridge-Dorchester subway beyond its present terminus in Harvard square to the North Cambridge carbarns two miles off was put before the City Council by Mayor John W. Lyons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Subway May Be Extended Two Miles | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...harbor at Juneau is indeed ice-free, but not the shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Choicest of the new mail links was one between Brownsville, Tex., Houston and San Antonio. Border-town Brownsville is a U. S. terminus for Pan American Airways. Only other regular commercial airline out of Brownsville, connecting with such points as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago, has been veteran Operator Tom Braniff's bustling Braniff Airways. Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer's Eastern Airlines, whose network of routes over the eastern side of the continent now reaches as far southwest as Houston, has coveted some of neighbor Braniff's exclusive shuttle trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pinched Penny | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Japan's objectives in bombing Canton are: 1) destruction of the city's military defenses and crushing the southern terminus of the Hankow-Canton railway, China's main pipeline for supplies now pouring in through Britain's Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Open Grave | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Last week one of the bypaths along the proletarian road wound to a temporary terminus in the Eagles Club Auditorium at Kenosha, Wis. Assembled there, in a confused and earnest clot, were 150 delegates to the 21st national convention of the Socialist Party. Among them few were more confused, none was more earnest than their three-time candidate for the Presidency of the U. S., grey Norman Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Peasoup | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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