Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bare breeze riffled the three flags atop the nation's law factory. The air was mild and misty. Many people, spectators, workers, newsmen, scurried around the wide plazas. Big autos zipped back and forth importantly...
...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing...
...Flying Club has been made the Cambridge agent for the Photographic Department of Skyways, Inc. During the fall this concern has been taking pictures of Harvard College the Yard and Soldiers Field from the air, and some excellent views have been obtained. These pictures will probably be on display at the Coop this week or next...
Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. New York, N. Y. / Amphibian / Commercial & military Amphibians / . . . . .$27,900 / Major Herbert A Dargue, U. S. Air Corps, used five Loening Amphibians in his Pan-American flight...