Word: locksley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streamliner was streaking toward the mountains when the bull-necked builder of bridges, dams and ships came to his peroration, from Tennyson's Locksley Hall...
...Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single...