Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byrd Field, Va. six enlisted Air Corps men shivered in a drafty hangar, cooked their meals over an outdoor fire, slept on bare mattresses...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...
...real object of the fight, it is asserted, is to break down the American companies into such fierce competition for volume that tobacco farmers will have to sell at a lower price. One of the large independent companies, wholly American owned, has telegraphed Senator Byrd of Virginia, that, while it makes a 10-cent cigarette and might temporarily benefit by the reduced tax, the situation that would be created would cost the tobacco farmers of Virginia and North Carolina alone approximately $30,000,000 a year through the effect it would have on tobacco prices...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
...Capitol, destroyed by fire in 1747, part of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $12,000,000 scheme to restore Williamsburg to its 18th Century glory. At a joint session in the austere room of the House of Burgesses, the General Assembly of Virginia saw onetime Governors Davis, Trinkle, Byrd and Pollard on the dais, heard Governor Peery and Mr. Rockefeller speak. Said pious Mr. Rockefeller: "What a temptation to sit in silence and let the past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words...