Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally even-tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks...
...luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...
Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...
...transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent, based his entire force at New Haven. Conn, and nearby airports in the New England area. From Barksdale Field, La.. came Brigadier General Frederick S. Martin, who led the Army's round-world hop in 1924, and his Third Wing with 756 officers and men, 47 pursuit and attack planes. Commander of the Second Wing, based normally at Langley Field. Va., temporarily at Middletown. Pa., was Brigadier General Arnold Norman Krogstad, whose bombardment squadrons include nine of the famed Boeing B-17s, four-engined...
...mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty hop of 15 ft. 10 in. He was promptly acclaimed the jumpingest frog in Calaveras or any other county...