Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
...with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible...
...bale of cotton was presented last week to the Bremen museum. No ordinary bale of cotton, this! It cost the Bremen Cotton Exchange about $3,500 although cotton usually costs about $124.80 per bale in Berlin.* This bale was the first ever to have crossed the Atlantic in the air. It was part of the Graf Zeppelin's cargo...
...service in Iraq, the British government has been using 25-passenger transport airplanes. So successful has the experiment been that the British admit they are designing 50-passenger air transports, with central engine, capable of being repaired in midair for minor troubles. Such planes would be immense: the largest Junkers plane seats only 18 passengers...
Past citations still current: The Patriot, Mother Knows Best, The Night Watch, Lonesome, Me, Gangster, Excess Baggage, Waterfront, The Docks of New York, Air Circus, Three Comrades and One Invention...