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...they were assured by Commodore R. B. Irving that they had a good chance of beating the Normandie's westbound trans-atlantic record of 3 days, 23 hr., 2 min. They did, passing the Ambrose Channel Lightship 3 days, 21 hr., 48 min. after they had left Bishop Rock, off Land's End, England. Best day's run: 790 miles...
...objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more Chinese, had them digging through rock so hard that four crews advanced only eight inches a day. When Stanford sent steam drilling equipment, Crocker refused to let it be tried...
...mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
...some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum...
...Gloucester, Mass., where for 60 years artists have been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...