Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour schedule, the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the 20th Century of the New York Central. Begininng on Sept. 29, the two railroads announced last week, the Pennsylvania will run two more 20-hour trains each way every day, the New York Central will run three more westbound, four more eastbound. All will have the same equipment and extra fare as the old 20-hour trains. Detroit-Pontiac. The Grand Trunk Railway last week announced plans to electrify its lines between Detroit and Pontiac. A four-track, 40-minute suburban system will be provided-and over the hurrying interurban...
...Moines a jury of men and women retired at 9:30 a. m. and returned to the court room at 8:30 p. m. with the verdict that bay rum sold in three-ounce bottles at Woolworth's 5 & 10 Cent Stores was an intoxicating beverage within the meaning...
...head when the Senate, on resolution of Senator Borah, directed its Naval Affairs Committee to spend $10.000 investigating the activities of William B. Shearer at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1927 (TIME, Sept. 16). The Naval Committee pondered a little and then appointed a sub committee of three to conduct the actual hearing. Members of the subcommittee...
Together the three consulted, then drew up the list of their first four witnesses, William B. Shearer not included. The four were officials of two of three shipbuilding companies suspected of having hired Shearer to induce failure of the Geneva Disarmament Conference so that they might have more battleships to build...
...Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic...