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Apparently as much wine is consumed in this country as ever. Prohibition laws have simply changed the outward forms by which wines are made. The tonnages of wines carried by leading railroads, for example, have shrunk rapidly toward zero. The Southern Pacific, which in 1917 carried 450,287 tons of wine, and in 1919 about 230,000 tons, in 1923 transported only 49,946 tons. So too the Santa Fe carried 167,535 tons in 1917, 94,181 in 1919 and 21,623 tons...
...Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when gendarmes forcibly dispersed the immovably enraptured diehards...
Captain Amundsen explains that at some thousands of feet, the temperature is less cold than at the surface of the ice. He hopes it will never be colder than 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero...
...average in December was raised to over 75 due to the presence of the Rev. H. E. Fosdick, who conducted chapel during the second week. The attendance on the Sunday he preached jumped to 550, whereas on the previous Sunday it was 279. Partly on account of the zero weather the lowest average, one of 46, was made in February...
...show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed his five suits of underwear, his furlined clothing, his specially designed helmet...