Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base of North Carolina's Whiteside Mountain, Felix was the youngest of ten children, an asthmatic invalid as a boy. He worked his way through several years of high school, spending 5? or 10? a month for pleasure and keeping house for himself in a mountainside cabin. He borrowed $300 for a year of law school, finished his studies at night while clerking by day, had a wife, two children and debts totaling $500 when he passed his bar examinations. The debts were soon paid off, for as a lawyer he did well, especially with Negro cases. His dark...
...Some, including two R.A.F. enlisted men, said its engines appeared to be missing. Some said they thought they saw a flare. Lower & lower it circled, barely missed the ground with one wing tip on the last turn. Then it crashed, burst into flames. Three bodies were hurled from the cabin, doused with gasoline. They burned with the rest, too close to the fire to be rescued. Of 20 passengers and crew, few could be identified when the wreckage cooled. Exception was the pilot, who still held a piece of the wheel in his hands. For an explanation of Trip...
Before taking off, Ickes criticized a contract Jesse Jones had negotiated with Aluminum Co. of America for operating three Government-owned aluminum plants, urged that the contract never be signed. It was signed anyway (TIME, Sept. 1). Ickes, in a log cabin 3,000 miles from Washington, sat down and wrote his letter...
...plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...
...sill. For some reason, Vag was thinking of his boyhood (how far away it seemed now, when one was old, and tired, and bored with Boston debutantes-). What a weekend that had been! They had come down the mountain in the dark, and there had been singing around the cabin stove after supper, and later a square dance in an old barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought of long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind...