Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile companies eight and six instruments respectively. The Mémophone cuts down toll charges by eliminating wrong numbers due to slips of memory or the finger. The practical Frenchmen who are boosting the Mémophone have assembled statistics showing that 15% to 17% of all hand-dialed calls are wrong numbers...
...after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just about dry. So, instead of circling to come in upwind, he streaked in downwind for a "hot" landing. His wife, watching from the ground, put her hand to her mouth. But Pancho got down neatly and smoothly at about 115 m.p.h...
...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart...
...licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
...delegation to greet them, thereby stealing a march on the other 47 United States and providing the Star with a good promotion stunt. As the Royal Train neared Winnipeg last week the city was jammed with some 15,000 visitors from nearby States; twoscore U. S. bands were on hand to play God Save The King; a squadron of U. S. Army planes from Minneapolis was hovering overhead; and Minnesota's Governor Harold E. Stassen was waiting to be the first U. S. Governor to shake the Royal hands...