Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin. Other parachuters : a couple who hold the riding record (nine trips), a blind man, a legless War veteran, two drunks who went up with a live duck...
Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
Actually, Lindbergh, who has seen many a Russian military airplane, is convinced that their performance is inferior, their construction too involved for mass production. He has also had a good look at the German Air Force, and is convinced that Germany has the air supremacy in Europe, will hold it for some years to come. He expressed his opinions privately to friends, including Lord and Lady Astor, and some in the U. S. (like Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames of NACA), But there was never any banquet of the Cliveden Set, and Lindbergh does not think it likely that British foreign...
...Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your way. Have you room in the hold for a man who can prove he's worth his salt?" Soon John West began to get replies. Said one: "Altering course to pick you up." When he graduated last week, John. West had a job with a Philadelphia advertising agency...
...page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite a pretty girl and hold the magazine so that she can see this...