Word: compartmentized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Condor's entire cabin compartment has been sound-proofed with wood and Kapok fibre so that it comes in direct contact at no point with the surrounding fuselage. Windows have been set in rubber, walls and ceiling are upholstered. It was found that arrangement of material in sound...
Rome Express (Gaumont-British Pictures Corp.). You can readily guess what kinds of travelers are to be found in this picture: a picture thief (Conrad Veidt), his accomplice (Hugh Williams), a cinemactress (Esther Ralston), a businessman eloping with his partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with...
Only through consignments will be accepted. To save time checking cargo, the load compartment will be sealed at the takeoff, remain sealed during fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita (where pilots change), Albuquerque, Seligman, Ariz, Among the pilots is famed Clyde Pangborn (round-the-World, 1931). Unbound by mail...
At the Tokyo railway station as Mr. Hsieh's train coasted in, 13 masters of Japanese court ceremonies stood like statues behind alert, businesslike Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, representing the State, and rheumy-eyed old Minister of the Imperial Household Kitokuro Ichiki representing the ''Son of...
Evangeline was young, beautiful, full of curiosity about Life. She had just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline...