Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, still in the gayest spirits, he drove down to Annapolis followed by a cortege of a dozen cars bearing his numerous family and friends (including the Morgenthaus, Hopkinses, Tugwells), to attend a regatta...
...paid $36,000 a year rent. Then TVA leased telephone lines, hired cars, bought airplanes to keep in touch with Muscle Shoals. Although TVA owned 223 automobiles and light trucks, its bill for hired passenger cars averaged $8,000 a month. In one period 53 TVA-owned cars drove less than 1,000 miles while the hired cars drove 114,000 miles at 7? a mile rental. The cash registers of TVA's commissaries, cafeterias, etc. recorded receipts differing from a few cents to several hundred dollars a day from the actual cash receipts, the differences being explained...
Last week CRIMSON publicity of the fullest sort was given the anti-Hearst petition which drove Metrotone News out of the University Theatre; even editorial support was granted it. This repetition was sponsored by the Liberal Club. The Monday night meeting was under the auspices of the Harvard Student League for Industrial Democracy...
...Reno with her handsome new Danish husband sped Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Late that night they drove into San Francisco, put up in the bridal suite of a hotel. Next morning the Count handed newshawks typewritten slips of paper setting forth that his first name was "Court-not Curt or Kurt." He announced that he was paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping...
Soaring over Moscow's Red Square one day last week, Maxim Gorki seemed a mighty symbol of Soviet power & progress. A small training plane, gnatlike by comparison, flew alongside it. Spellbound moujiks cheered as giant and gnat disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...