Word: cartwheels
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...next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this time we might we hinted, establish a transatlantic mail and passenger service...
...seemed that the "dolly" twice bumped heavily, failed to leave the ground. Captain Fonck said afterwards: "I intended to stop the plane but I was afraid it would tear into the crowd of automobiles. . . ." The crippled monster reached a gully at the runway's end, turned a cartwheel, right wing down, and vanished from sight...
Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...Filene's suggestion seemed to forecast an event already made inevitable by the disappearance of the immigrant trade. It has the grand simplicity of the big business man, is characteristic of an age wherein ten dollars are made from the masses to every cartwheel wrung from...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...