Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House's four ladies, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, were among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...
Said Builder Mahoney: "Col. Lindbergh did not desire a racing plane. He wanted a close, cabin-type plane with a longer cruising radius than is ordinarily available." (The new plane carries two tanks to hold, in toto, 115 gallons of gasoline, enough for 920 miles...
...rotting carcasses on the $500,000 ranch of Cinemactor Harry Carey; total estimated property damage of $20,000,000. The revolting waters had tossed one sleeping farmer in a lean-to shack to the top of the canyon, saving his life. But his brother and niece in a nearby cabin were sucked into a watery death. At Newhall a morgue was established in a dance pavillion; 50 bodies lay in rows on tilted boards; an old sign over the door said: "WELCOME...
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist McPherson for $1,000,000. Last week, Mrs. Kimball's lawyer announced that the suit had been settled out of court. What the terms of settlement might have been, he refused to say; his client, however, was "perfectly satisfied...
...fifth birthday by sailing on his S. S. President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924. "Mother" Dollar, shipmate of 33 crossings to China and Japan, and on his previous world cruises, will share his cabin. Next week, another one of Robert Dollar's ships, the President Polk, will back out of Singapore, bound for New York. On May 10, the President Polk will leave pier 9, Jersey City, for the 100th round-the-world cruise of the Dollar Line. All over...