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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...word "hump" obscene? (TIME, May 2). This is disturbing news to me, as I've borne it as a nickname for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...ruled the words were not obscene, dismissed the charge. The New York World-Telegram and Herald Tribune, carefully reporting to their readers that one of the words appeared in verse 7 of chapter 21 in the Book of Leviticus, ostentatiously refrained from mentioning them. The legal words: whore, whorehouse, hump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taboo Words | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Death in Ecuador | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Flying a stripped-down, hump-backed Seversky pursuit plane powered by a Twin Wasp Jr. engine, Fuller was first to reach Cleveland, continued on non-stop to Bendix, N. J., the famed old airport of Teterboro where Vincent Bendix now has headquarters. For this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Victims & Winners | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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