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...Pennsy's new project is to spend $100,000,000 the next seven or eight years electrifying its 325 miles of line (1,300 miles of track) between Manhattan and Wilmington. At Wilmington connection will be made with the Philadelphia electric lines. Thence the lines will eventually run westward through Pennsylvania to the Pittsburgh district, which soon will be electrified as are Philadelphia and Manhattan...
...Manhattan-Wilmington miles of track will be the longest railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...
Nominee Curtis went to Raleigh, N. C., Martinsburg, West Va., and Wilmington, Del. Prohibition was his burden, immigration his refrain. He next entered New Jersey. If Democrats had been annoyed by Nominee Hoover's refusal to acknowledge Nominee Smith's presence in the campaign, Nominee Curtis made amends. He referred to "the dear Governor" and to "the gentleman from New York who thinks he is running for President on the Democratic ticket." The further Curtis itinerary lay through Connecticut, Massachusetts, upper New York, western Pennsylvania, into Ohio...
Married. Wilhelmina du Pont, daughter of William K. du Pont (explosives) of Wilmington, Del.; to Donald P. Ross of Chestnut Hill...
Married. Esther du Pont, daughter of Lammot du Pont, Delaware chemicals & explosives tycoon; to Campbell Weir of the Bellanca Airplane Co. of New Castle, Del.; in Wilmington...