Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roger Quincy Williams, left-handed pilot, and Lewis Yancey, left- handed navigator, after a six-week wait and two accidents to their first plane, the Green Flash, flew a second Bellanca, one- Whirlwind-motored Pathfinder, unerringly from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain, where gas shortage had forced the Old Orchard-Paris Yellow Bird down three weeks prior (TIME, June 24). Gas shortage also arrested the Pathfinder's flight. Bound for Rome, she rose again and got there without another stop...
...after the War that he really started on his plan. He went into plane and motor factories to learn their trade. He initiated himself with mail contracts by getting the first private one which the Government granted?between New York and Boston...
Proud as Publisher Macfadden is of his four confessionals, he is most proud of his first brain-child and moneymaker, Physical Culture, which advises seekers of health to go to the gymnasium instead of the doctor, is filled with pictures of full-figured women, brawny near-nuded men with marcelled hair and muscle-bound expressions...
...Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved to court action was the Hearst-owned Universal Service Wireless, Inc., organized last year following the Commission's first allocation order. Last week it filed notice of appeal in Washington's Court of Appeals asking that the Commission be enjoined from allocating the wavelengths to the new corporation, that the new corporation be enjoined from erecting its transmitting stations. Universal's complaints: 1) It had been given unconditional rights...
Riviera is the title of the show-window display in the department store where Mr. Misch struts as floorwalker. A salesgirl, first devoted to Mr. Misch, leaves him to go with the store-owner to the real Riviera...