Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At Hornell, N. Y. last week two seagulls flopped helplessly to earth in the business district, their wings so coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature'...
Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and...
In the long interim between 1817 and the present, the art of clocution has declined far below the standard of men like Webster, Clay, Douglas, or Calhoun. In this descent toward mediocrity, the oratory prizes have stood out against the current like rocks in a stream, steadily maintaining their solid...
Since then there have been eleven fatal crashes of scheduled passenger transports, first and most significant of which was that of a TWA Douglas at Atlanta, Mo. in which Senator Bronson Cutting was killed (TIME, May 13, 1935). This disaster evoked from the Senators surviving colleagues a torrent of denunciation...
Sweepstakes winners are miserable simpletons. Lottery winners of any sort make good newspaper copy. Simpleton winners make even better copy. Last week in New York, which was obviously the place most concerned about Ireland's Sweepstakes and England's horse race, the doings of Sweepstakes winners were recorded...