Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid renewed cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" Mr. Chamberlain then laid down a program for the creation by the Ministry of Health of two Departmental Committees of Inquiry, one to perform comprehensive field research upon maternal mortality, and the other to investigate "the status, training and remuneration of midwives . . . upon whom, after all, the success or failure of any efforts we may make to improve the conditions of childbirth must largely depend...
Gene Howe had criticized Lindbergh for not landing on a field crowded with eager spectators. Despite threatening and sneering telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...last week's plane were four men: Capt. Charles F. Kingsford-Smith, commander, organizer; Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, copilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon, navigator ; James Warner, radio operator. They made the 2,400-mile hop from Oakland Airport, Calif., to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, in 27 hrs., 28 min.-having no trouble except that they thought they were going to run out of gasoline. Their plane, called the Southern Cross, is a Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors...
...mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
...concern was in good condition for refinancing, for letting the investing public share in it. Lehman Bros, of Manhattan took the initiative; Field Glore & Co. of Manhattan and J. H. Holmes of Pittsburgh joined them in the underwriting. Joseph Horne Co. was incorporated for $7,500,000 preferred stock and 240,000 shares of no par common stock. But, although Home's department store was thus a quasi-public institution, no preferred stock was sold, and only 40,000 of the common. That common already is listed on the Pittsburgh stock exchange, but is closely held. Homes, Sheas...