Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan--"The Marriage Play-ground", with Mary Brian...
...grave of the Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will be either the three-room, ground floor flat at No. 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, where the Tiger worked and died, or the tiny, one-story stone house with a partly thatched roof in the Vendee, where he worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices...
...natural gas in the earth which forces the petroleum out when wells are driven. The Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...
...followed, and, from that day to this there has been a constant fight. Not the churches alone, but multitudes of non-church people, following the lead of Franklin, have joined in the fight against liquor. It has been a long hard fight, but the antiliquor forces have gradually gained ground...