Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge, attended by the President's secretary, physician, aides and secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
GOLD OF OPHIR-Sydney and Marjory Greenbie - Doubleday, Page ($4). The story of the lure of the Orient in early America, how it drew Yankee clippers around the Horn, how it propelled the movement westward across the continent...
Near Syracuse, along the tracks of the New York Central, a night flyer sped westward. No whistles blew. No bell sounded. Faster and faster it glided, past green lights at little stations, red lights at crossings; and the clicking of the ties became a dreamy foxtrot drumming in the ears of people who twisted on lumpy mattresses in small green coffins in its shadowy Pullman cars. A suddenly frightened fireman stared out at the flying night, then made his way forward and peered into the engine cab. At the throttle was a hand- the steady hand of Engineer William Vanbergen...
After the game all cars parked within the Soldiers Field enclosure and on the Boston Parkway must leave by the Parkway westward. Cars parked within the enclosure on the Stadium Street side of Soldiers Field may, however, proceed west along North Harvard Street...
...pleasant evening when he set sail soaring up from Long Island, headed across to Jersey and westward toward Pennsylvania. Then there was a hiatus in the record. At midnight Bellefonte, Pa., (where there is the first relay field of the transcontinental air mail) began to look for him. Charles H. Ames was a veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away...