Word: shored
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Delegates heard Dr. Francis Scott McBride, their Washington lobbyist, recite his achievements. They crossed the Detroit River to have a look at government-controlled liquor stores and liquor export docks on the Canadian shore...
Travelers who have had occasion to ride both divisions may have noticed a marked difference in the service and equipment on such trains as the Twentieth Century, Wolverine, North Shore; that when they are on the Boston section of these trains sometimes there are no magazines in the Club Car, terminal stops (Buffalo, Albany) are unusually long, sleeping cars are not up-to-date, washrooms are inconveniently small and many other evidences that the world-famous luxury of the same New York-Chicago trains is not upheld for the New England patronage...
...from the Leviathan to his syndicate (TIME, Dec. 30). But the week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three minutes, described the introduction of the service. The Times-Star splashed the story of the event across its front page...
...brings a news story into the office. . . . However . . . when a newspaper does something that no newspaper in the world has ever done there are apt to be some doubters. In order to prove its claim that it was the first newspaper in the world to receive a ship-to-shore telephonic message, the Times-Star is producing 'the papers...