Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator bothered to obtain confirmation for Curtis D. Wilbur as a U. S. Circuit Court judge...
...leaned closer and whispered. "Play my piccolo from coast to coast. Yes, sir. After I've studied a little with my maestro, that's what I am going to do. There's some talk about a tour of the Associated Harvard Clubs circuit first. You'll have to ask my manager about that. But then I'll set out. And I shan't stop until I stand upon the shores of the Pacific...
Last summer, a few months after Col. Lindbergh had flown the circuit of the Caribbean, Hayden. Stone & Co.. with other bankers, organized the Aviation Corporation of the Americas, which bought all the stock of Pan-American Airways Company already in the district. Richard F. Hoyt* became chairman of both companies, and transportation projects began to take shape. At once they started a Miami-Havana service...
Clouds, air pockets, winds, days, nights. Dismayed by enormous puffs of fog the flyers left the seacoast, roared over a 60-mile circuit above Imperial Valley. They broke the U. S. record for re-fuelled flight. They broke the international re-fuelled flight records.* Shortly afterward fell the world's record for sustained flight (heavier-than-air machines).? There remained but two records to pass, that for sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines), and the distance record...
Other ballads-with-a-moral for the mail-order circuit and Tin Pan Alley are "The Wreck of the Shenandoah," "The Death of Floyd Collins," more than 200 Lindbergh songs. Least melodic in title is "The Hall-Mills Case...