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...Bremen, a silver flash in the air, is a low-winged, single-motored Junkers machine similar to those used in passenger and freight service on the Lufthansa lines. She has a 310 h.p. motor and cruises best at a speed of 95 to 100 miles an hour...
Lake Coal. To the annoyance of coal operators in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Commission refused to let freight rates be lowered 20 cents per ton by railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Hocking Valley, Virginian) which carry coal from that section to the Great Lakes, for transshipment to the Northwest...
...shock of Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...
...stood for Budapest. Last week the Hungarian Government was seriously compromised when five freight cars from Verona, Italy, which had been intercepted as they crossed from Austria into Hungary, were proved to be loaded with ma-chine guns although invoiced as "agricul- tural instruments...
Experiments with radio communication between moving trains and railroad signal towers had previously been made, but never before so successfully as last week on a mile-long New York Central freight train. In a tower at South Schenectady. N. Y., were Edward W. Rice Jr. and other General Electric officials; on the train were New York Central officials. They talked together, and clearly, as the train moved...