Word: westbound
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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...
During his spare time, of which he generally has little, Dr. Poling writes novels which he signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers...
...Reykjavik, Iceland's mountain-hugged harbor, the westbound Swedish "commercial" flyers (TIME, June 17) last week decided to wait until the end of this month before continuing their Stockholm-New York flight. Bad weather over Greenland and need for motor parts are delaying them...
...Under the law the Leviathan may carry some 97 gallons of wines and spirits for medicinal purposes. Beyond the 12-mile-limit on eastbound trips, this supply will be opened and sold to passengers. At Southampton and Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European...
...near Nominee Smith on the specific proposals described as "social-istic." Vice President Dawes, for example, who had spoken just before Nominee Hoover from the Manhattan platform, had long been an archproponent of the principle involved in the Smith proposal for farm relief. Charles Evans Hughes, at that moment westbound to speak for Nominee Hoover in critical Missouri, had long been an archproponent of the prin ciple involved in the Smith proposal