Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the League Council dropped the whole matter with a resolution piously hoping that Uruguay and Russia will resume their relations. Smartest Litvinoff crack...
...from Newark Airport one noon last week climbed The Southerner, American Airlines' crack transcontinental transport. Southward it flew through perfect flying weather, halting briefly for passengers at Philadelphia, Washington, Nashville. Aboard the 11-ton, twin-motored Douglas was W. R. Dyess, WPAdministrator for Arkansas, on the way home. Partners W. S. Hardwick and David A. Chernus, engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston...
...another four hours was the wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
...Golden Gleam appeared in the U. S. in 1932. Neither a fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Academy was blacklisted in 1933 after it replaced over half of its civilian instructors with regular Navy men. Scrutinizing the five black sheep in the pen, the professors decided that the least consequential of them had washed itself white. Opening the gate a crack, they allowed Harris Teachers College to scoot gratefully out. Then the professors set about penning up a big, grimy animal which had long been running free. This was the University of Pittsburgh, whose chancellor is pale, Messianic John Gabbert Bowman and whose home is a handsome Gothic skyscraper, in the heart...