Word: kite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALLEN M. KITE...
...Judge Joseph W. Schulman, by his own $400 check drawn to M. Green, endorsed to Zuta, returned by the bank marked "payment stopped," and by other vouchers. Said the Judge: "I was in financial difficulties and I had to kite some checks. Green would get me a check and I would write one of my own . . . and date it a month ahead and give it to Green. I didn't pay any attention to the names on the checks." ¶ Chief of Police William 0. Freeman of Evanston, by a letter on official stationery, asking for "four...
...soldier-patriarch, commander of the Emperor's 2nd Army in the Russo-Japa-nese War; after long illness of bronchial catarrh, at his home in Tokyo. Born a Commoner, his war services won him the titles of Baron and Count, First Class of the Order of the Golden Kite, Japan's Highest military award. He was made Field Marshal...
Hydrogen generating apparatus, 140 tons of crude chemicals, and a kite balloon capable of holding 35,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen (while it is being pumped into the Grafs gas cells), pyrofax (65%) and hydrogen (35%) to be mixed and stored in the Graf's ballonets as motor fuel, all were shipped last week to Pernambuco from Lakehurst...