Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped with improvements learned from the previous experiences. A "robot" steering device was installed. Running gear was made double-strong for rough landings. A cabin hatch was cut for observations of the stars. Fuel tanks were built to hold 1,000 gal. In the cabin was a bed for the pilot off watch. Experts spent months in plotting the course for favorable topography and weather...
Statesman Titulescu writhed "yes." His friendly foe, the Premier, fixed his ear, put him to bed until a specialist arrived by roaring motor from Bucharest...
When? Certainly not until after the U. S. and Britain have made their debt bed and are lying in it, if the Prime Minister has his way. Last week he created a special Cabinet subcommittee of five to tug at Britain's end of the debt sheets. The Big Five: 1) the Prime Minister; 2) the Lord President of the Council, bumbling Stanley Baldwin who negotiated and signed at Washington in 1923 the promise to pay $11,000,000,000 over 62 years, from which Mother Britain has been trying to extricate herself ever since; 3) Foreign Secretary...
...night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms as agreed will receive squatters rights in the Coco River Valley, will be guarded...
...fight a Senate investigation of his political steamroller, who ordered a public holiday on Saturday to give the Hibernia a 48-hour breathing spell over the weekend. But no one at the Friday night conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast of purple oaths from Huey Long. Arthur G. Newmyer, one of the publishers of the New Orleans Item, was roused by telephone. A member...