Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bayles v. the Clock. Official timing cameras of the Federation of Aeronautique Internationale clicked at Wayne County Airport, Mich, while Pilot Lowell Bayles flew his fat little Gee-Bee racer four times around official pylons 1.8 mi. apart. When Pilot Bayles landed his average speed had apparently smashed the world's landplane record of 278.4 m. p. h., held by France. On one lap he was checked at 295.86. Final calculations, however, gave him an average of only 281.9, less than the 4.97 margin allowed him to receive official credit. Moreover, no record would have been allowed because...
From all this much-traveled Mayor Walker might have gathered that his errand of mercy was looked upon with favor in California. Such, however, was far from the case. "Impropriety . . ." grumbled the Fresno Bee. "Easier than attempting to clean up the Augean stench of Gotham!" sneered the Stockton Record. "PUBLICITY SPECTACLE . . . PROPAGANDA HIPPODROME . . . BALLYHOO!" screamed the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals bill pass? Who got a black eye for calling Ben Till...
...Joaquin Valley the long-powerful Fresno Republican was five years old. And in Sacramento the Union was 30, the Bee 24. Portland's respected Oregonian was older than any of the others; and the Telegram was in existence, too. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been there since 1863 and Hearst was not to get it until...
Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...