Word: annuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks' active duty with the Air Corps to explore the U. S. aeronautical research facilities. He is still working daily in Washington, without pay, as an Air Corps technical adviser. As luck would have it his ship docked on the night of the newspaper photographers' annual ball and the ball was at a standstill while cameramen fumed on the dock for an hour and a half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed himself. The photographers were naturally resentful, but Lindbergh did not know about...
...Suez directors gathered for their annual meeting in Paris last week, President of the Board, smooth, aristocratic Marquis de Vogüe,* paid his respects to the sentimental Italian claims just long enough to deny them: Italian claims are based either on "bad faith" or "extreme ignorance." Of the three alleged Italian builders of Suez he said: 1) Negrelli was not an Italian but an Austrian. He never worked on the Canal. The reason: a year before Canal digging started, Negrelli died. 2) Paleocapa refused a job at Suez. The reason: he had gone blind. 3) Torelli did not become...
Italy's annual tonnage through Suez (16.07% m 1937) is second only to Britain's 47.28%. Though 13 reductions in rates have been made since the World War, Italians still find Canal tolls ($1.38 per ton loaded, 71? in ballast) excessive. In addition, there is a charge of $1.38 for every adult passenger, 71? for every child between 3 and 12 years, using the Canal. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain has paid as high as $50,000 one way. Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried...
...knows us not. Out of confusion do we come and into confusion do we go. . . . Thus speaks the modern-he who has lost faith in the good, the beautiful, the true." But dissent remained private until, fortnight ago, Critic Jewett dismissed the paintings in the Art Institute's annual student show as of 'comic valentine persuasion...
...build a T. B. clinic and hospital. Heartened by this recognition, scholarly Dr. Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams, dean of Howard's medical school, promptly called a meeting of 50 black and white tuberculosis experts. Last week at Howard he welcomed the delegates to the First Annual Conference of Negro Tuberculosis workers...