Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cross-country Refueling. A most practical solution of refueling flight was undertaken last week - an attempt to fly from Spokane to New York and back (7,200 miles) refueling on the way. The Spokane Sun God, a Buhl biplane with Wright whirlwind motor, carried Lieut. Nick B. Mamer and Pilot Art Walker. At first they had trouble in making their refueling contacts on their way to New York. More fortunate were they on their way back, had reached St. Paul without mishap as the new week began. Texas Co. (gas & oil) announced that it would establish refueling stations over...
...Author. Says Jonathan Norton Leonard, 26: "I haven't lived long enough to have much biography." What biography he has includes the fact that his father, Jonathan Leonard, also writes (Back to Stay and The Meddlers); that Jonathan Jr. studied at schools public as well as private and underwent some tutoring before and during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
...solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...
...next year, Squibb Plan gets 10% ($60), and another 10% ($10) on the increase in the retailer's purchases. So all told Squibb Plan gets $80. Out of this it pays the retailer 6% ($30) on his money. Of the remaining profit ($50) half goes back to the parent company and the rest ($25) is prorated among the retailers in proportion to the amount of their direct purchases from Squibb...