Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
...appointed swimming coach at Yale. When the 1936 Olympic Games came around, Yale's Kiphuth was named coach of a U. S. swimming team for the third time and his feat of twelve years without defeat in a collegiate dual meet was proclaimed all over the land...
...constructed in the U. S., Boeing's "314" is the first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs...
Although last autumn in the interest of economy he came out against the building of public roads, President Roosevelt last week dignified the super-highway idea by endorsing Senator Bulkley's self-payment plan as a business pump primer, and by suggesting that through excess condemnation of land a mile each side of the superhighways the Government might realize a profit when land values rose...
...marrying Michael Wallace, 59, and Anabelle Banks, 52, Police Judge Chris Fox of Oakland, Calif. received a note: "Dear Judge: I'm short of cash but I will remember you when the Townsend Plan is the law of the land...