Word: airs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delinquent Postmasters. Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown last week reminded 1,500 postmasters of communities with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 to help the Guggenheim Fund get their cities air-marked. The Postmaster-General threatened to shame delinquents publicly by printing their names. Two thousand postmasters had got town roofs well marked. Three thousand others are exhorting their citizens to do likewise...
...Charles Ruppert, father of a sitter, said: "My boy is sunburned and the exposure to fresh air will benefit him. I want him to make a real record and I've promised a reward of 50? a day for each day over 20 he stays aloft...
...high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...
...Wiegand: "Dr. Eckener, veteran air dog that he is, is in rare, fine humor?barometer of the spirit of the crew, the passengers and the giant ship itself. . . . He is bending over a chart on the dining room table, as unconcerned as any of the other officers...
Journalist Von Wiegand awoke towards daylight and ran out on the navigating bridge in his pajamas. He had "sensed immediately a thrill in the air." The ship was making 105 m.p.h. with the boost from a tail wind...