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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
...special wire to the CRIMSON office from the Stadium made the rush account of the game possible. The problem of rapid transit from the press was met by a taxi equipped with a special traffic mandate allowing it to travel the wrong route on a hole way street...
...Riding. In New York City, the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (the I.R.T.) carried 1,130,647 passengers in its elevated and subway trains during the year ending June 30, President Frank Hedley announced last week. This represented 40,940,422 passengers more than during the previous twelve months. Elevated traffic, however, fell off 1.85%. The gross revenue...
...seas, especially, will be monopolized by airplanes. Even now a plane can travel four times as fast as the fastest boat, and this fact will always remain true. At present, it does not seem likely that the railroads will be supplanted; airplanes will merely supplement them by affording rapid transit for luxuries and perishable produce...
...plan for industrial peace here to be described has already proven workable. ... P. R. T. (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.) in 1911 was not financially able to pay its trainmen more than the wage rate theretofore secured through arbitration, and against which the men were in open rebellion. The payment of this rate in 1910 had consumed about 22% of the gross passenger earnings. The new agreement, which we then made, provided that out of every dollar taken in, these men should receive 22 cents, so that as the owners secured advantage by the increased business obtained through joint effort...