Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development came: A. F. of L. sent 30 experienced building trades organizers into Michigan to make a heavily financed assault on U. A. W. of C. I. O. They will work with A. F. of L.-convert Homer Martin, the youthful ex-preacher, who as National A. A. U. hop-skip-jump champion (in 1924 and 1925) was known as "The Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Kansas). This explained to observers Mr. Martin's nonchalance of the week before, when his wealthiest, strongest U. A. W.A. F. of L. local (Packard) moved 10,000 members and its treasury over...
With its factories and offices only a two-hour bomber hop from Nazi air bases, British industry has plenty to think about. One thing it is thinking about is how to induce aging members of boards of directors to get physically fit to replace younger men called to the colors...
...readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for Lisbon and Marseille via the Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers sat W. J. Eck, assistant vice president of Southern Railway, an engineer whose hobbies are photography and globe-flying and whose name was first of some 300 first-flight applicants...
...ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile hop...
Lowell House will open next year's House dance season with a hop on Saturday, October 21, on the night of the Pennsylvania football game, Samuel W. White '40, secretary of the Committee of Interhouse Chairmen, announced last night...