Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funneled Italian freighter steamed into Gravesend, England, last week and tied up safely at its pier. Flags on other craft dipped a salute, sirens screamed. In London a relieved Lady Chamberlain telegraphed to Premier Mussolini that his ship was safe...
...consignment from Italy was the last to arrive in London. From the Limehouse dock four police manned vans carried the crates through guarded streets to Burlington House, Piccadilly, copied after an Italian palace and long the seat of the Royal Academy...
Significant coincidents took place during the last fortnight in motorless flight circles...
...Aviation tycoons, among them Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, dining with the National Gliders Association in Manhattan last fortnight, offered nearly $50,000 to promote the useful sport of gliding. They foresaw 1,000,000 glider pilots in 1935 who could easily learn to fly motored planes...
...Last week Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder and president of the National Glider Association and president of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., announced that his aviation corporation had bought Gliders, Inc., largest U. S. manufacturers of gliders. He proposed to sell gliders at cost...