Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another reason why the memory of the late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office and opera building. Their sick are tended in a $200,000 hospital which he sponsored. Their children may attend three Iowa colleges which he aided financially. Newtonites who on Frederick Louis Maytag's 75th birthday in 1932 were working for The Maytag Co. shared...
...company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed on the air...
...Reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. Sir John, ordinarily rated a cold fish and long the highest paid lawyer in England, told the House in a voice shaking with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children...
...been necessary to abandon the ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...