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...build, now nearly finished, will do the following things: ensure year-round train service, on two tracks, by burrowing under the snow-blockade line of the Continental Divide, replacing 23 miles of 4% grades with six miles of 2% grades; make Denver 44 miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
...swart Britishers debarked from the S. S. Minnetonka from London, were propelled by motor to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. They had come, via London, from India, where they are officers in the British Army. It was to them that Great Britain's polo organization, Hurlingham, had assigned the task of winning the Westchester cup, emblematic of international championship. Since 1921 it has rested...
...cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back south to Dayton, Louisville, Dallas, Tulsa and thence up the continent to Detroit. Henry Ford, watching the pilots jockey their controls to keep even keels in the rain and gale at the finish, said: "This shows the reliability of the airplane, if anything...
Having bubbled over with affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...surveyed in 1763-67 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who were sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...