Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loud, colorful Banker Fleishhacker has been far from alone in resisting Depression on the Pacific Coast. Bankers generally agree that the California banking situation has remained about the best in the land, a remarkable feat considering the State's large investments in agriculture. In Northern California there has been only one bank failure since Jan. 1 and that was in a small town after the principal industry had moved away. In Southern California there have been 15 failures in 1932. Bankers in Northern California agree that in the past three months the banking scare has cleared up. Deposits have...
...Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal of Honor. It will be presented by President Hoover, but not for saving Bobby Jones's life. For that the Burlington gave Pilot Freeburg a gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke starboard propeller. Flying near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight...
...Jumbo', our star performer, can play the national anthem without cue or guidance from me, in approximately 30 seconds. This feat is the result of years of practice, during which the seal is drilled in the progression of notes, and is the most difficult of all the acts...
...first the construction and installation of air conditioners was an expensive engineering feat indulged in by cinema "palaces," zoos, the U. S. Senate. Department stores quickly discerned an inducement to summer trade. Big department store installations include Hudson's in Detroit (a $1,000,000 job); Kern's, also in Detroit; Abbott's, Tulsa; Ayres's, Indianapolis; Filene's, Boston; Macy's. Manhattan; Sanger's, Fort Worth; Smith-Kasson's, Cincinnati; Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia...
...death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan...