Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to network records, only once before have CBS and both NBC networks operated simultaneously all night: for the Hughes flight...
...Mecca." Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory is not only unique in England; it has no parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics...
Grounded during the big blow itself, American Airlines started flying next morning. By 9 o'clock every scheduled flight was booked solid. By noon there was a waiting list of 800. Unable to carry more than a small percentage of the demand, even by tripling its service, American Airlines got Civil Aeronautics Authority permission to waive its franchise, then asked other airlines to help out. United Air Lines, Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Air pitched in. When at week's end railroad grades and highways were got back into shape, other lines retired after the busiest spell...
After researching four representative U. S. families, LIFE invited top-flight architects to draw plans for them. From a lay point of view all eight houses appeared eminently practical and livable,* but in looks the moderns seemed to excel...
Meanwhile there was but little slackening in the flight of gold to the U. S., leading the New York Times to express a prime worry of monetary experts, what to do with it: "It is possible, of course, to sterilize the presence of gold, to keep it from forcing prices upward. . . . But nobody ever has found a way to sterilize the absence of gold. When a country [i. e., in Europe] has too little of the metal, its prices fall, bringing depression...