Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against Pan American Airways. . . . The service which they propose for Europe will serve Atlantic ports of Europe and England, whereas we will serve Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes and braved what he felt sure was a colony of Black Widow spiders in the basement. He discovered in old barrels and stacks no less than 2,000 prints and drawings which had never been cataloged...
Editor Dawson's "Letters to the Editor" department is the most famous in the world. Here the ingredients of British character are revealed, stewing with incredible seriousness over topics ranging from the fate of Empire to the palatability of black-grape jelly with pickled pork. The department runs four or five columns daily and includes the publishable thoughts of many of Britain's most substantial citizens...
...moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose in America where color lines are strictly drawn and traces of black blood must be concealed if possible. That...
...southwestern South Dakota knot of mountains called the Black Hills are the richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres...