Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because its pontoons or floats involve more weight and air resistance than a landing gear, a seaplane cannot travel as fast as a land plane. But 185.8 miles per hour is not a negligible speed. This is the world's seaplane record, made at Philadelphia last week by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton, in the U. S. Navy-Wright seaplane NW-2, entered for the Schneider Cup race to be held at Cowes, England, on Sept...
...Washington last year was the authorization of a joint commission of Senators and Representatives, whose duty it would be to ascertain why it was that 9,678 banks in this country eligible for membership in the Reserve System, had not seen fit to join it. The commission will travel into every state in the Union and hold hearings in all significant banking centers...
...held there in June. People railroaded quickly there from all parts of Germany. Many Americans came from Paris over very convenient transporting lines. The resort is just across the military lines which the French have established in Germany, but the state of semi-war did not impede their travel to the Mozart Festival...
...Johnson Morrow, Governor of the Canal Zone, predicted that traffic through the Panama Canal would soon quadruple. His prediction seems likely to come true even sooner than he probably expected, for, in announced figures on Canal traffic for the fiscal year recently closed, he found that the rate of travel is now double that of a year ago, and tolls for the next year, at the present rate, will exceed $24,000,000, of which about $18,000,000 is profit above over-head expense...
Nothing was said about the remaining traffic which is obliged to travel at a snail's pace, owing to the impenetrable density...