Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flying from Mexico City to New York in three days for the Herrick funeral, Col. Lindbergh, No. i TJ. S. Hero, landed at Boiling Field, Washington, tarried 15 minutes. Across the watery field rushed worshipful crowds to greet him. Impatient, he taxied away, halting near a great mudpuddle. When the crowd approached again, he raced his motor sharply. In doing so he splashed dirty water over newsgatherers, photographers, admiring women. Said the Washington Daily News, in an editorial captioned "Lindbergh Splashes Mud on Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt...
...picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers on her first trip under private ownership...
Chicago was quieter last week than it had been for a month. The 2,523 entrants in the 29th annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress finished knocking down pins and carried away prize money amounting to more than $100,000. Outstanding was Adolph Unke of Milwaukee, who won the singles with a total of 728*, and took second place in the all events with 1,952. Otto Stein Jr., of St. Louis won the all events with 1,974. W. Kleca and P. Butler of Chicago were the doubles winners with 1,353 and the Hub Recreation team...
...discovered a simple way to clear rust from the steel plumbing of their building. They drain the water off and force dry steam into the pipes. The heat makes the pipes expand, the rust shrink loose from the pipes. The steam is released and water flushes the rust away. The pipes become clean, although pitted, and thinner than when bought...
...were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism and with it, the brotherhood of nations. The New Economic Policy, started in 1923 was the first definite indication of this gradual tendency away from the extreme views of Kar! Marx, and the exile of Trotsky, one of the few leaders to staunchly maintain Marx's ideas through this period, marks the last phase of this same development. Professor Karpovich's lecture will undoubtedly help to clarify the multiplicity of events in this period...