Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tunneling from the cellars of neighboring buildings proved the most effective rescue method. Forty crushed and bloody corpses were soon recovered, and 26 wounded men no less bloody. Meanwhile buried survivors made known their whereabouts by tapping. When located they were succored, first by drilling small holes to admit air, next by enlarging the holes until sandwiches and heartening bottles of brandy could be passed in, and finally by excavating and propping up passages through which they could crawl. A few perished, even at this late stage, when some of the propped passageways collapsed. Injured were 30 policemen, soldiers...
...Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, director of the Zeppelin works, and Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry, are calmly enjoying their game of dress as Commander Rosendahl of the Los Angeles looks...
...Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...
Canadian Airlines. The inevitable linking up of air transportation lines has taken place in Canada, where Inter-provincial Airways, Ltd. ($30,000,000 corporation) has bought six disjointed lines...