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...Diamond. This territory begins in Brooklyn, N. Y., where henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with gangs reputed to be led by Angelo ("Little Augie") Pisano, heir to the eminence of the late Frankie Yale (TIME, July 9, 1928). Far out on the westward highways, however, speed Diamond's trucks, delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest...
Reasons like the following made Bertrand Lord Dawson of Penn's westward journey across Canada the past fortnight a respectfully observed, newsworthy processional...
...Pennsylvania R. R. angrily answered the I. C. C.'s charges of monopoly, Baltimore & Ohio peacefully proceeded along the lines laid by the I. C. C.'s consolidation plan. Better to fight its two great rivals, New York Central and Pennsylvania, B. & O. has long wished a westward extension. At first it eyed Wabash. But the I. C. C. assigned to it not Wabash but the long-sickly Chicago & Alton...
...faster and stronger airplanes become, the further they can fly and the heavier the weather they can endure, the more obviously necessary to them becomes Radio. It was not insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...
...rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last week after 31 trying hours, the Fokker Southern Cross, already famed for its flight from California to Australia (TIME June 18 1928) from Australia to England, became the second to make a nonstop flight westward across the Atlantic and land on North American soil, first to continue into...