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Thirteenth Contract The longest contract airmail route yet (1,099 mi.) was about to start operating, between Seattle and Los Angeles. Trains take 63 hr. up or down this stretch of coast. Eight planes were in readiness to fly it, four each way daily, in 13¼ hr. Night flying was planned for the beginning of each trip, the planes setting out at 3:45 a. m., arriving at 5 p. m. with five stops* on the way: Portland, Medford, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield. When begun, it was to make the 13th operating contract route that has been instituted...
...admiration of succeeding generations. It is a comforting theory. It convinces the connoisseur of his good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked...
...Dean" in reference to the Diplomatic Corps is applied in a purely technical sense to that representative of longest residence in the particular locality in question. Don Riano became First Secretary of the Spanish Legation in 1900 and his resignation lets drop the mantle of age upon the shoulders of Belgian Ambassador Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne...
...Longest Lawsuit...
...from Ohio through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and into Kansas. The man is Clement Studebaker Jr., 55-year-old head of all the Studebaker interests, president of the Studebaker Brothers Trust, chairman of the North American Light & Power Co. which holds among other properties the Illinois Traction System (the longest electric raliway in the world)-manufacturer, financier, "clubman" (he belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois are jointly interested...