Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venerable Boston wool merchants compared their market to the Wartime boom as the old clip neared exhaustion and wool tops hit 78? a pound against the year's low of 54?. In New Orleans brewers jacked the price of beer $1 a barrel because of rising malt and hop prices...
ARTICLE ON BLIND LANDING IN ISSUE MARCH 13 DOES INJUSTICE TO MEMORY OF MY BROTHER MARSHALL S BOGGS IN MISSTATING MANNER OF HIS DEATH STOP THE FATAL CRASH OCCURRED LONG AFTER DARK NOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT STOP HE WAS ENGAGED IN LINE OF DUTY AND NOT ON A JOY HOP...
Looking closely at a Pabst label one may see a large B inscribed on one of the hop leaves. It stands as a memento to one Jacob Best who started the business in the 1840s. In 1862 his granddaughter married Captain Frederick Pabst of the S. S. Huron. By the time the Chicago fire of 1871 left the Milwaukee brewers supreme in their territory Capt. Pabst had taken over the company and had his name painted over its portals. Capt. Pabst was an epicure, would rather sip good wine than quaff beer. So it was a proud...
...different story if an amateur pilot invites you for a cross-country hop in his plane. By the law of averages you would be dead before your 4,000th flight- five times as dangerous as scheduled airline flying. Contrary to popular opinion it is a trifle less dangerous to take sight-seeing flights or air taxis than to fly by transport plane, largely because "joy hops" are very short. Scheduled flights average between two and three hours, nonscheduled one-half to one hour...
...white with yellow wings and re-christened The American Nurse, the Bellanca monoplane was the ship that Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn flew, by fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse...