Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of the airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
...Under Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12), approving arrangements for his reinaugural parade and plans for a reviewing stand modeled on Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, preparing a statement urging industry to employ more men, particularly men over 40. authorizing the U. S.-owned Alaska Railroad to charter ships so that Alaska should not starve during the continued West Coast shipping strike...
...venerable institution little known to the U. S. public is the American Academy of Arts & Letters in Manhattan. Last week members and their guests assembled to hear an oration from President Nicholas Murray Butler honoring the centenary, of Charter Member Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an organ recital, more speeches by amiable Critic William Lyon Phelps and ruby-nosed retired Editor Robert ("Droch") Bridges of Scribner's Magazine. Then one and all adjourned to view a collection of 170 sculptures by the only ; female sculptor in the Academy, capable, unassuming Anna Hyatt Huntmgton...
This week Charter Subscribers and newsstand buyers got their first look at LIFE, new picture weekly published by Time Inc. Preliminary promotion had promised that LIFE would offer "the biggest and best package of pictures which it is possible to produce at a popular price." For 10?, first readers could judge how the new magazine had fulfilled these specifications as they thumbed the 96 big pages (14 in. by 10⅝ in.) on which LIFE commenced its pictorial career...
...second meeting in Adams House yesterday, the newly organizes Harvard Photographic Club adopted a Constitution and elected Elbert Payson Little '34, assistant in Physics, as its faculty adviser. 25 charter members were present, under the chairmanship of Lawrence E. Marcus...