Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting the sale of Ludington Air Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to Eastern Air Transport for $250.000, TIME said: "Ludington set a new low for fares, a new high for economy of operation," added that Ludington had performed a feat unusual for an air transport line by managing to profit without an airmail subsidy the first year of its operation (1930-31). TIME erred in reporting that Ludington's $1,000,000 capitalization had been fully subscribed by the Brothers Ludington...
...South American B. O. M.'s marvel that Mr. Duguid could have held, successfully, a 15-ft., struggling anaconda while his companion, wearing heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...every Pennsylvanian could have performed the feat of which Governor Pinchot was last week so proud. The community market sold him the food at cost. The State Relief Board says that, by buying for community markets in large quantities, it gets food from wholesalers 30% cheaper than retail merchants...
...bouts of tropical fever, cost Bennett a pretty penny, but Stanley got his man. Every continent chuckled over his famed greeting. Said Stanley: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone refused to be taken home in newspaper triumph, preferred to stay in Africa, but he gave Stanley letters to prove his feat...
...story of Governor Roosevelt's rise to be Man of the Year and 32nd President of the U. S. is fresh in mind. Future historians describing it as a feat of political mountain-climbing will not fail to mention...