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January 16, 1929

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OFFERS $16,082,000 ON SHIP BOARD LINES; P.W. Chapman, New York, Tops 8 Bids for 11 Vessels, Adds $218,000 for Leaseholds. WOULD BUILD NEW VESSELS Merchant Fleet Corporation Will Analyze Propositions and Recommend Action. Specifications Offered Alternatives. Franklin Bid Outlined. OFFERS $16,082,000 ON SHIP BOARD LINES Board Gratified by Interest. Chapman Reveals His Plans.

By Special to The New York Times

8 bids received for purchase of U S and Amer Merchant Lines; P W Chapman Inc submits highest

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BYRD LANDS PLANE FOR FIRST FLIGHT OVER ANTARCTICA; Mighty Cheer Bursts From Crew as the "Stars and Stripes" Is Safely Put Ashore. SYMBOL OF THE ADVENTURE Whole Day Is Spent in Slinging Craft From Ship to Ice, Every Man Guarding It From Harm. THEN THE TUNING UP BEGINS Roaring Giant Is Soon Ready to Go Aloft With Captain Parker at the Controls. Days of Toil Rewarded. Jealously Guarded in Unloading. BYRD LANDS PLANE FOR FIRST FLIGHT Expedition Has Four Planes in All.

By Russell Owen. Copyright 1929, By the New York Times and the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. All Rights For Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless To the New York Times

1st airplane unloaded

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Notable Births

1929Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (died 2014)[†]

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics.