Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...Navy 37, West Virginia Wesleyan...
Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes...
...terminal at Manhattan is also electrified. Steam trains cannot linger underground in the tunnels that Manhattan traffic necessitates. So from Hell Gate, where the Pennsylvania connects with New England lines, to Manhattan Transfer in New Jersey, where steam locomotives replace electric ones for the long Pennsylvania hauls south and west, and to Long Island City where the Pennsy's Long Island trains change from electricity to steam-within all that great triangle electric locomotives haul the cars. For the same reason at Manhattan the New York Central hauls its trains by electricity to Harmon and the New York...