Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire warmed the President & guests at his Rapidan camp over the weekend. He rested from the nervous tension incident to calling out the Army to evacuate the Bonus Expeditionary Force (see col. 2). The highway from Washington was scoured by Virginia troopers in flashing white cars to see that the President was not accosted or molested by straggling Bonus marchers...
...Miller, 21, son of a Jacksonville, Fla. night watchman: by 4 & 2, his match with "Pete Miller" (Panaysti Milliau) 21, of Chicago in the final of the U. S. Public Links Golf Championship; at Louisville, Ky. Among Golfer Miller's rewards: a Kentucky colonelcy, as aide-de-camp to Lieut. Governor A. B. Chandler of Kentucky...
...walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return early, found many of them ill. Doctors went to the Bonus Army's camp at Anacostia, where some leftover picnic boxes had been sent, treated a score of veterans who had eaten before being warned. That night more than 150 excursionists slept in hospitals, some 200 others were recovering at home. Food Poisoning- Washington's hospitals recorded the cases as "ptomaine poisoning." Physicians...
...calibrated for exact measurements, youthful John K. ("Jack") O'Meara of New York and Martin Hermann Schempp of Pittsburgh shone as individual stars. In their sailplanes both pilots soared 68 mi. into Pennsylvania, O'Meara landing in the midst of a Girl Scout camp. The previous U. S. airline distance record was 10.9 mi., held by famed Hawley Bowlus. The world record of 136.8 mi. is Germany's. For altitude O'Meara's apparent 5,000 ft. was surpassed by Schempp's 5,400 ft. (world record: Austria...
...expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...