Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jose, Costa Rica. For two weeks, grunting laborers worked at Sabana, normally a cattle pasture for the poorest farmers, smoothing it out for Col. Lindbergh's landing wheels. A special stamp issue was prepared; the government decreed free railway rides for all who wished to welcome the flyer. President Ricardo Jiminez described him as "created expressly by the Supreme Power for marvelous flights . . . exalts the airplane and consecrates it anew." He hovered over Sabana, swooped three times and circled; finally dropped a note that he could not land until police cleared the pasture. They did. The Spirit...
...According to report his words were: "Something terrible is happening in my cellar! The furnace has gone flooey! It's going to explode!'' Policemen lumbered. Firemen dashed. In the Longworth furnace, they discovered a broken water coil, ripped it out. Mrs. Longworth, "fourth lady of the land" (see p. 7), served coffee & perfectos...
...Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, an appointive body chairmaned by the British Governor and containing a minority of native chiefs. The anti-slavery decree allows no compensation to onetime slave owners, gives to each freed slave the right to claim a plot of the now too plenteous waste Government land...
...swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India...
...General Augusto Sandino (see above) after a hot fight (TIME, Jan. 9), which continued, last week, resulting in the death of one more Marine, and the wounding of five more. It was to succor wounded Marines that the picks, shovels, hatchets and crowbars rained down. With them an emergency landing field was cleared, smoothed. When planes could land and take off, the more seriously wounded Marines, totaling nine, were flown, one at a time to the Nicaraguan Capital of Managua, and there tucked into clean hospital beds...