Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broke its record of faultless performance. Pilot John Parke Andrews, Passengers Mary Seaman and Carl C. Stoll Jr., were killed in an accident at Mineola, L. I. Last week, Carl C. Stoll ST., of Louisville, Ky., filed suit for negligence against the Curtiss Flying Service, Inc., the first legal action of its kind in the history of New York courts. At the same time, Illinois courts were concerned with a novel phase of flying. Mrs. Gertrude B. Weingarten, mother of 6-year-old R. Paul Weingarten Jr., asked Justice Adolph Joseph Sabath to enjoin her husband (divorced) from taking their...
Parent, Saying Son Weeps for Pet, Sure Governor Had No Part in Action...
While a person's actions are being recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind...
Driving with his wife and sister, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur noted a brawl along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...
Willys Dividend. For the first time since 1920, Willys-Overland Co. paid a dividend. Said President John North Willys: "This action is another positive indication of the rapidly advancing progress of this company." The dividend is a quarterly one of 30^ ?per share of common stock...