Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wichita the air became so bumpy that it knocked his compass needle askew, left Pilot Hughes dependent upon maps and city lights below. He recognized the lights of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis at hour intervals. Near Indianapolis a tailwind lifted his speed to 295 m.p.h., carried him past Columbus in 35 minutes. There the moon came up, gave him a definite guidepost to the Atlantic Coast, which he reached in another 105 minutes...
...fifteen new assistants are: William H. Nichells, of Lexingten, Kentacky economics: Donald M. Kubel, of Bar Keley, California, economics; Carl E. Thomas, of Belmont, economics; Richard R. Goodwin, of Brockline, biology Branford P. Millar, of Warsaw, New York, English; Kenneth P. Miller, of Columbus, Ohio, English; Meyer R. Abrams of Long Branch, New Jerees. English; Basis W. Kchler, of Thun, communication engineering; Demorested of Newport. Rhode Island Biology and Olot H. Pearson, of Destenter biology...
Meantime Republican outsiders continued hopefully to expose themselves to the lightning. Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg kept mum in Washington, but photographs of the Vandenberg home were beginning to circulate through the Press. In Columbus, Old Guardsman Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...
...true that you were in a romance with the Emperor's daughter?" chirped a grinning newshawk. Cried delighted Julian, "Christopher Columbus! Such rumors about me-rumors, rumors, rumors...
...Benin art ever exhibited in the U. S. Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the Guinea coast joins the coast of the Cameroons. Just in that corner stood until the end of the 19th Century the ancient Kingdom of Benin. In 1486, six years before Columbus sailed to the west, Portuguese traders searching for pepper first entered the sacred city of Benin. There they found palaces of red clay polished until they shone like marble, great treasures of ivory, brass and bronze, a broad main street stretching to the horizon. In the 400 years that followed...