Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans are based chiefly upon prospective Government contracts. Although a two-place cabin commercial plane was developed and testflown last summer, it never was placed in production. Instead, all efforts were concentrated upon XFJ-1, a single-place fighter for the Navy; XP-16, two-place pursuit for the Army; XO-31, a light observation plane for the Navy. In an official test last week a few hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular...
Nurtured on ""Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Calvinistic faith, the long panorama of Dr. Wiley's life unrolls its most colorful chapter at the beginning, where early American life grows into school and college from the backwoods struggle for existence. Graduated from Harvard in 1873 he received his diploma from Dr. Charles William Eliot, then known as the "Boy President", was stimulated by the parting lectures of Louis Agassiz, and witnessed the first Harvard-Yale baseball game...
There can be no doubt that Mr. Pasma knows the North Sea. The parts of the autobiography concerned with his life as a cabin boy on this most unpleasant of waters is excellent reading. Unfortunately, two-thirds of the book are taken up with incidents of home life among the Frisians, and unless you are planning a summer trip to their region in Holland, there's not much use in going into the subject so deeply. It is conceivable that Mr. Pasma may write sea-fiction in the future which will be of more sustained interest than this record...
...Open, Sesame!" to Europe was spoken for millions of U. S. citizens when great trans-Atlantic lines established the moderate priced "Cabin Class" service and the bargain-rate "Tourist Third...
...owners are one of Japan's great families, the House of Iwasaki. She flys the "N. Y. K." flag of the Japan mail steamship company, famed Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Beaming with satisfaction her passengers debarked from the first trans-Pacific "Cabin Class" ($250), from the first trans-Pacific "Tourist Third" ($125). Hitherto it has cost some $300 to cross the Pacific in First and to cross in plain Second or plain Third has been even more infra dig; than on the Atlantic...