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Harvard began looking westward last year when awards were provided for students from the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. After an examination of the first semester records of the men chosen, Mr. Conant pronounced himself well satisfied with the results. Accordingly, the plan will be extended to include Kentucky, and Iowa this year...
...years ago "Alf" Landon was a young independent oil man of considerable means. Five years ago, a widower, he married Miss Theo Cobb who has one of the largest collections of Westward Ho glass in the U. S. Since then he has become the father of two children and has twice been elected Governor of Kansas. Politicians would not be surprised to see him turn up at next year's Republican convention wheeling 100 or more Landon-pledged delegates in his perambulator...
Another distant subsidiary of Pan American is China National Aviation Corp. which flies up the coast of China from Canton to Peiping and westward across the middle of China, from Shanghai to Chengtu. Last week this company opened in southwestern China a new branch from Chungking to Yunnanfu, Yunnan Province...
...could run the six miles from Philadelphia to Germantown in twelve minutes-in good weather. In 1849 Matthias Baldwin built the "Governor Paine" which worked up a speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World War, 300 per month were being produced. With Depression railroad orders fell off. Chairman Samuel M. Vauclain stoutly declared: "I have seen the grass, at times, grow six inches high in the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is not six inches...
...Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their woman ran to the Federal car, drove it back to pick them up. As the automobile disappeared westward a State policeman who had been hiding in the grass, uncertain which side to take, popped a rifle ineffectually...