Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Douglas Fairbanks paid $66.25 fare for himself, wife, and three friends to fly from Washington to New York, then paid an additional $66.25 for the remaining five seats so his party would not have to share the cabin with strangers...
...woman brought two geese. Laurence Clifton Jones. Missouri-born Negro who had been teaching in a small Mississippi school, had come to Piney Woods to found a Negro school. He had already taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first building, Founder Jones called a public meeting. Result: a subscription list headed by $50 and 40 acres of land from an aged ex-slave named Taylor, first contribution to the Piney Woods Country Life School...
...hand. But Pilot Ormsbee knew otherwise. He might put his ship down upon that boiling sea but he would never take it off again. He scribbled a note on a message blank, passed it through the little window to ''Sparks's" compartment just abaft the control cabin, saw Sparks (radio operator) begin to pound brass . . . "NHC [the Naval base at Cristobal]-NHC-sighted ten men in lifeboat at 10:22 North 76:52 West-ORMSBEE." With that message and another to Miami on their way, Pilot Ormsbee turned northeast and kited for Barranquilla, hating to think...
...succeeded in raising a $20,000,000 loan in the U. S., sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping...
Functioning apparently perfectly the ship circled the airport at Camden with landing lights on. Pilot Cox had throttled down to land, when, for no reason that observers could see, the ship lost flying speed and dived straight down upon a golf course adjoining the field. To all within the cabin, Death came instantaneously...