Word: hangar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Outdoor Advertising Association of America held its 44th annual convention in Chicago. In the "Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
Last December Jimmy Wedell made national news by flying a sick infant 1,400 mi. through fog and storm from Houston to Baltimore for an operation which saved her life (TIME, Jan. 8). Fortnight ago a windstorm wrecked his hangar, failed to damage the uncompleted plane with which he hoped to fly 450 m.p.h...
...Brazil is sure of one thing: last week, through his Communications Ministry, he contracted with Zeppelin Co. for 20 transatlantic Zeppelin trips a year for 30 years. To seal the bargain he set aside a credit of 11,000 contos ($940,000) to help Zeppelin Co. build a hangar...
...Byrd Field, Va. six enlisted Air Corps men shivered in a drafty hangar, cooked their meals over an outdoor fire, slept on bare mattresses...
...made lightning.* But to him the test, though spectacular and successful, was simply another step toward a final objective. If unfavorable weather had not forced him to hold his show indoors, he would have had the trucks moved outside where, with none of the stored electricity sparking into hangar walls and beams, he could have counted on 10,000,000 volts...