Word: closed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles takeoff was lubberly. The Graf Zeppelin scraped her tail on high tension wires close to Mines Field. Damage was slight and she proceeded slowly eastward over the Continental Divide, with a graceful swerve over Mexico. Bull-throated El Paso had opportunity to hail her. Over Texas, presumably, someone shot a bullet into her hull, causing no damage. Down into Kansas City peered the German passengers looking for cowboys...
...famed oldtime National League baseball pitcher (Brooklyn, New York) was successfully operated on in a Brooklyn hospital, for an intestinal disorder. He got his nickname in 1904, when he helped the New York "Giants" win a pennant by pitching and winning three "doubleheaders" (two-games-in-one-day) in close succession...
...Close behind, averaging only .001 m. p. h. less, was brother George Wood in Miss America VII, last year's winning boat. Both other contestants were eliminated by engine trouble. In the second (and final) heat Champion Wood sent Miss America VIII roaring at the new record time of over 75 m. p. h., strengthened the tradition that he is unbeatable on water...
When the tirade was over and President Chiang had been calmed, officials close to him explained that he had been trying to rally the national patriotic spirit. Later the same day he continued "rallying" in an address to cadets of the Central Military Academy at Nanking...
...General Manager of the British-owned Mexicano Railway?a $50,000,000 line connecting Mexico City with the major port of Vera Cruz?is close-mouthed J. D. W. Holmes. Last week he said: "We shall not have to wait long to see the complete bankruptcy of this line if the projected labor law is enacted...