Word: aire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
...Province of Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat and shiny workman's cap. Yes, he had something to say to correspondents...
...Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard Air Line, director and onetime President of St. Louis & San Francisco R. R.; in Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused...
...over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still air...