Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three or four years ago when every long-distance flight or airline merger made front page news, the public was well aware of the name of Fairchild. Besides being the name of the world's most famed aerial camera, it denoted a good airplane. Fairchild cabin jobs flew mail & passengers, flew prospectors to Canadian gold fields, news photographers to disaster scenes. Like nearly everything else in aviation Fairchild had its slump. As a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. it lost $2,100,000 in 1929, $870,000 in 1930. Next year Sherman Mills Fairchild, its shrewd young president, pulled...
...onetime Senator and Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry. Apprehensively the two lugged five suitcases, noiselessly as possible lest some sharp-eared master hear and spring out to stop them. They were running away from school, out into the world where they would ship to sea as cabin boys! Wait until Hotchkiss heard about that! Students Wetter and Newberry were roommates. Student Newberry had some fame as a prankster. They were both tired of going out for sports under the hard-driving supervision of "Monnie" Monahan. However dignified and cultured ''The Duke" (Headmaster George Van Sant-voord...
...World Waits (by George F. Hummel; Frank Merlin, producer) is a depiction of life in the murky base cabin of the Hartley Antarctic expedition, toward the end of a two-year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World...
Back from his annual vacation in the British Isles, John Pierpont Morgan received reporters and cameramen in his ship cabin, exhibited the new affability he acquired at the Senate Banking Committee Inquiry in Washington last Spring. Said he: "I was told when I left England that if I saw you men and posed for the photographers it would be a matter of only a few minutes and then everything would be all right. I believe now that it is true since I have done these things here. Yet I don't like it." Most of the newshawks' questions...
...worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin one evening. When he reappeared next morning, visitors approached to ask questions. Dr. Einstein explored an egg, said nothing. Thereafter Frau Einstein had all she could do to shield him from strangers...