Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Continents, More than 100,000,000 years ago the hideous, ungainly reptiles which were then the lords of life roamed two vast continents, ''Gondwanaland" in the southern hemisphere, "Laurasia" in the northern. A globe-girdling ocean, the "Tethys Deep," divided them. Mighty Gondwanaland shuddered, cracked and sundered. Its fragments drifted to form South America. Africa. Australia, Peninsular India, Madagascar. Mighty Laurasia similarly broke to form North America and Eurasia...
Skipper. There is good reason for Juan Terry Trippe, chief of the world's biggest air transport system, to think in terms of trade routes, to call his airplanes "clippers," to have at his desk corner an enormous mariner's globe-not of much use since it is an antique and lacks the names of many places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer...
...Into court last week marched elderly President Edward J. Jamison of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and demanded back the big company which the New York State Superintendent of Insurance took away from him last March. At that time securities which cost the company $73,800,000 were worth $19,900,000. Since then, said President Jamison last week, the stockmarket had been good to him. Globe & Rutgers' assets now exceeded liabilities by $10,000,000. The court pondered his plea. Wall Street wondered if Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories...
...until Fairbanks joined the Masons in 1926 and had to spend one dinner hour a week at the lodge. Warned by friends that such devotion was a mistake, Mary Pickford exclaimed: "We figure that our lives are too short as it is." In 1930 Fairbanks, fond of traveling, went globe trotting alone. Last week he wired her from London that she would have to pay for the upkeep of ''Pickfair," their Beverly Hills home. To the Press, she wept, confirmed the separation, hinted at divorce. Divorced. John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, "Millionaire Explorer"; by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden...
...circle the earth from and to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (TIME, June 12) he was in Khabarovsk. Far Eastern Siberia, so utterly exhausted by a grueling flight across sea and land that he could not even answer newsmen. With all chance gone of beating the 8½-day globe record of Post & Gatty he now was trying to make the best possible solo record, yet heeding the cabled exhortations of his backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern's flight across the steppes occurred east of Omsk when a fuel line...