Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. The ship flew into snow, into one of the sudden storms which buffet the Southwest in winter. Lieut. Murray Hanson, in command, flew low to look for water, saw none where he could land. He flew high, at 17,000 feet was still in the storm and snow. He flew blind; the snow had blotted out everything, and he had only his instruments to guide him. Wind mocked and rocked the great plane, smashed the cabin's windows. Spare parts spewed like hail through the cabin. A dreadful paralysis seized the plane; after each lurch, each drop...
...invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...
School of Business Administration: Professor Theodore H. Brown, Professor John C. Callan, Professor Arthur W. Hanson, Professor Robert L. Masson, and Professor Edwin C. Robbins--all at Morgan Hall...
...afternoon, in open-air Federal Plaza, 25,000 people heard the San Francisco Symphony play U. S. music, with such composers as Howard Hanson and William Grant Still conducting their own pieces. Edwin McArthur conducted Deems Taylor's Circus Day. The amplification was tinny, airplanes zoomed, firecrackers popped, a military band zing-boomed past but everyone thought the concert was swell. The evening shindig filled the Coliseum (capacity 15,000) and Festival Hall (3,000), left more than 5,000 people clamoring outside. For the 33 numbers on the program, ASCAP and Tin Pan Alley had shot the works...