Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additional revenue of approximately $10,000,000 per year. Their stout claim, supported by heavy advance sale of "limited" tickets, is that the traveling public gladly pays the extra fare in return for superior accommodations, extra speed. Some famed limited trains, their routes, their times, their extra fares: New York Central. 20th Century Limited (and three similar trains), New York & Chicago in 20 hr.-$9.60. Southwestern Limited, New York & St. Louis...
Pennsylvania. Broadway Limited (and two similar trains), New York & Chicago, 20 hr.-$9.60. The American, New York & St. Louis, 24 hr.-$4.60. Congressional Limited, New York & Washington 4⅔ hr. - $1. Southern. Crescent Limited, New York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard...
...remarks. From a radio loudspeaker came the voice of Scientist Albert Einstein speaking from Berlin. Inventor Edison acknowledged the unheard compliments. Other famed guests at the Dearborn celebration: Airplane Inventor Wright, Ambassador Dawes, Steelman Schwab, Oilman Rockefeller Jr., Tireman Firestone, Cineman Hays, Secretary of War Good. Railmen Crowley (New York Central). Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Loree (Delaware & Hudson), Willard (Baltimore & Ohio). Worldwide were the refractions of the Light Jubilee and Hero Edison's glory. In European and South American countries were held illumination displays, banquets, public lectures, exhibitions...
...formation of a National Farm Grain Growers Association to stabilize prices. Reason: difficulty of securing adequate storage space. Cotton. Prices were down due to a larger crop than was expected. Latest U. S. estimate: 14,915,000 bales. Latest traders' estimate: 15,000,000 bales. Market (New York, middling upland): Last week, 18? per lb.; last year, 19 4/5? per lb. Within the month the Farm Board has advanced $7,250,000 to cotton growers' coöperatives to offset slumped prices. Corn. Prices fell sharply due to an increased crop estimate. Latest U. S. estimate...
Marie Mattingly Meloney, Editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work...