Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your issue of July 15 contains an error on page 13. Pittsburgh is not the first city operating an aluminum street car. Cleveland had its first aluminum street car nearly two years ago. Come to Cleveland if you wish to see the best in street cars, and the car riders pay for them under the Taylor-Tom Johnson franchise...
General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the War College to study...
...United the deal looked wise. It lines up one of the best planes in the world with other United subsidiaries-Boeing, Vought, Hamilton Metalplane, Pratt & Whitney motors, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Stout Airlines.* Whether Curtiss Flying Service, a subsidiary of United's competitor Curtiss-Wright Corp., will continue to sell Sikorsky planes was last week unannounced...
...present seemed to feel that the best thing next to do was to adjourn the meeting after a perfunctory session which lasted just three minutes...
Albert of Belgium swam incognito last week at Mariakerke (best Belgian bathing resort), was robbed of gold watch, gold penknife, wallet containing 500 francs; found his clothes tied in knots when he returned...