Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
Elmer Rice, for the best play (Street Scene, reviewed in TIME, Jan. 21) received...
...ships, sisters of the two huge ships which Goodyear is constructing for the U. S. Navy, are to use helium as their supporting gas, will have engines and cabins enclosed in the hulls, will cost about five million dollars each. The first is to be launched about Jan...
Engaged. James Cash Penney Jr. of White Plains, air amateur, son of the chain store tycoon, Prohibition patron and Hoover intimate (TIME, Jan. 28); to a Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan...
After each had had his say, the most dramatic contribution to the controversy was yet to come. Owner of four newspapers into which I. P. & P. had bought its way is able Frank Ernest Gannett, publisher of 17 chainpapers,−father of-the Teletypesetter (TIME, Jan. 14). When Mr. Graustein completed his testimony before the Commission, Mr. Gannett called it "in the main, admirable," explained more fully his deals with I. P. & P. Last week, with a sudden and theatrical gesture, he canceled the deals, freed his papers from the menace of the "Power Trust." He wrote Mr. Graustein...