Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or the pigs perish, appeal to the U. S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there was controversial talk last week...
Miami opened its municipal airport; Miami watched air races and stunts; Miami saw the Pan-American Airways begin U. S. passenger and mail service to the several West Indies. All this occurred the fore part of last week...
...three events, the opening of West Indies air service was the most important. In many respects, it is more important than U. S. continental services. In this country the railroads supply swift transportation. Among the West Indies and in Central America, relatively slow steamers furnish communication...
...Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...Higher than all but two Manhattan skyscrapers; the Woolworth Building (792 ft.); the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (700 ft . ) . †To keep away air, prevent rust. Such paint is an economical product of so-called red lead (minium, Ph.O...