Word: erickson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody was greatly pleased by the Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week...
Belmont Hill: Emerson, r.e.; Brooks, r.t.; Erickson, Vaughan, r.g.; Carstein, H., c.; Carstein, L., l.g.; Ellis, l.t.; Wheeler, l.e.; Gilpatrick, q.b.; Hicks, Mereer, h.b.; Emerson, f.b. Touchdowns--Parketie 4, Roberts 1. Points after touchdowns Roberts 2 by dropkick. Pass, Parkette to Salls...
...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...
...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
...close race is predicted by Coaches Jim Erickson and Ed Brown. No practice races have been held except a run between Eliot and the Third Varsity which left the Elephants far behind. Although the Winthrop House crew has shown considerable potential speed on the river, Dunster and Eliot have exhibited great evenness of timing in the practice sessions. Eliot House, which has two boatloads of men to pick from, is the favorite in some quarters in spite of its extreme lightness. Winthrop, on the other hand, has entered a heavy crew...