Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because the Olympic diving program rewards perfection of execution rather than quantity of varia- tions. Needing a third place or better to make the team, the best she could do was fourth. Winner was Los Angeles' pert, blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
Without comment the thoughtful New Republic published a list of 158 companies with the names and salaries of their highest-paid officers, paralleled this list with another showing the average weekly wage in their industry. Payment ranged downward from $304,398 for American Tobacco's George Washington Hill to a low of $40,000, found in four instances, while average weekly wages ran from $38.45 (fire insurance) to $12.53 (textile). Outstanding disparity: Mr. Hill's compensation contrasted with the average $13.76 a week earned by workers in the tobacco industry...
Gliding-the pastime of coasting downhill just above the ground in a motorless plane supported by the air current that moves up the hill-is today merely an introduction to the infinitely more exciting sport of soaring. Soaring is three-dimensional sailing whereby, to achieve altitude and distance, an expert has his choice of four types of air current: 1) hill-deflected winds, 2) thermal currents from warm spots on the ground, 3) upcurrents under cumulus clouds, 4) explosive updrafts preceding a thunderstorm. At Elmira, long ago selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing...
...Manufacturer Buxton & Daughter Lucretia were starting out with three associates to tow their two-seated glider Transporter to Elmira behind a 1925 Rolls-Royce. They arrived in five days. On the second day of the meet, Daughter Lucretia and Associate Fred Barnes climbed into Transporter, took off from Harris Hill at 10:27 a. m., soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with the pilots of other craft sailing about near them. Last week Transporter set a world record for two-place gliders with an altitude...
...notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles to make a convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor on Nob Hill. The Burley plan is succeeding much better than Father Tim's when the bricks begin to rain...