Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with regular silverware, crockery, linen. Some three hours later, near the first stop, at Memphis, the stewardess made up the first berth for the first sleepy passenger. By the time the airliner had left Memphis, droned on toward its second stop at Dallas, its third at Tucson, all 14 passengers were stowed away for the night. Next morning, at Los -Angeles, the fourth stop, they rose for breakfast on the ground after...
World's first aerial sleeper service was started in the autumn of 1933 by Eastern Air Transport with an 18-passenger two-berth Curtiss Condor on the Newark-Atlanta run (TIME, Oct. 15, 1933). Only other U. S. airline to try the service since has been American, which started it with Condors between Los Angeles and Dallas in April 1934, found it popular (TIME, July 16, 1934). This service, no longer necessary, was discontinued last week. Other long-run airlines will probably put on service like American's new one as soon as their Douglas...
...while the long-range struggle of whipping a winning eleven into shape progresses, the individual players cannot help but be far more absorbed in their own fight for a berth in the starting line-up of the Amherst opener next Saturday. And with the possible exception of Captain Jim Gaffney at left tackle, there is not a man on the squad who can safely feel that he has his position cinched...
...Gaffney, the team has a leader who started every Varsity game last year, and was rarely pulled out. During the 1935 season, he played guard, but was changed to a tackle position during spring practice to bolster up this department, and will continue in this berth...
Keen competition for the blocking back berth continues, as "Skip" Stahley is working with about a dozen potential touchdown trail blazers. Due to a slight knee injury suffered by Johnny Nesmith, a likely line-bucker, Mal McTernan has been shifted from Stahley's group where he spent the first two days of practice, and is now reenforcing the ranks of ball carriers...