Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat-of-the-pants intuition. There were no radio ranges, no airways weather reports, none but the most rudimentary of cockpit instruments. Clambering into the open cockpit of an old Pitcairn biplane, Pilot Proctor, swathed to the eyes in fleece-lined flying gear, used to start his run at Buffalo, lug his mail to Cleveland, navigating by landmarks and cruising at 80 m.p.h...
...Buffalo: Richard E. Moot '42; 400 Erie City Bk. Bldg., Buffalo...
Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.-"People have more fun than anybody"-Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd...
...roads struck were the Pennsylvania west and north of Harrisburg, the New York Central west of Buffalo, the Southern, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, plus, at week's end, 100 miles of Santa Fe track in California used by the Union Pacific. By this kind of piecemeal attack, the firemen tangled up the nation's heartland without causing a national emergency that might have brought the President into the fight...
...white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...