Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic air-currents for Captain Fonck's benefit. Trans-Atlantic steamers have flashed weather reports. Steamships are supplied with cards bearing silhouettes of the S-35 to aid in recognition, and instructions for reporting, having sighted her. The S-35 carries an elaborate radio outfit and has been assigned special wavelengths by the Department of Commerce...
...fairly engaging band of stagefolk tries to do the Chariot kind of thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...
...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...
Charles Francis Dorr Belden: A Librarian who has ably directed the Boston Public Library both for the advancement of learning and the benefit of the people...
...statement calling attention to the necessity for all subscribers to call for their albums on one of these days, since only one more sale will take place in addition to these. This sale will be held during Commencement week, the precise date to be announced later, for the benefit of subscribers who are necessarily absent this week. A few extra copies have been printed for men who have not yet subscribed. These will be placed on sale today and will be distributed to the first comers...