Word: strip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weather Bureau began functioning last week to protect flying all the way across the continent. In a 400-mi. wide strip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New York, 60 weather reporting stations have been organized. Day and night they report local meteorological conditions to collecting centres at Cleveland, Omaha, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. From these centres, every three hours, day and night, consolidated weather information on wind direction and velocity, temperature, dew point, air pressure, clouds, is broadcast to passing planes...
...which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep). The pen indicated on a moving strip of paper the continual variations in the beat...
Louis B. PARSONS New York City. Reader Parsons is correct. The Outcault strip was called "Hogan's Alley." It was continued in the World, after Outcault went to Hearst, by George B. Tuks. Then there were two "Yellow Kids." two yellow journals. - ED. B rownsville-Mexico City
...century-old real estate dream came true last week in Baltimore. Back in 1828 Peter Cooper, Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent...
...across Mexico's northern border they land in Texas. But southbound fugitives emerge in Guatemala, which has a small outlet on the Atlantic, a large coastal line on the Pacific, and a stretch of mountainous country in between. South of Guatemala lies Salvador, which is a comparatively narrow strip of country along the Pacific, big Honduras shutting it off on the Caribbean side. In eastern Guatemala the principal product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador is Indian or half-breed...