Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes...
Princess Margaret, 18, faced her first trip outside the Empire next fortnight: a hop to Amsterdam, where she would officially represent her folks at Juliana's investiture...
Last night's informal dance at the Somerset finished the terpsichorean activities of the week which featured a Hop Concert at the Blockhouse on Tuesday evening. There Galli-Galli, an imported Egyptian, entertained with feats of magic and sleight-of-hand...
...convention, Pennsylvania had made a celebrated boner by waiting too long to hop on the Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...
...Harvey Harvard is dead, but his six day old son, Harvey II, will hop right into his place as official mascot at the University Nursery School a week from today...