Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writer. Richard Halliburton, who writes travel stories with the sprightliness of an old spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred...
Among the Pundits, one of the ablest, Samuel George Blythe, long of the New York World and the Saturday Evening Post, is now retired in California...
Clinton W. Gilbert, still with the New York Evening Post, long iamed for his "Daily Mirror of Washington" (mostly personalities, anecdotes) has grown dull and vague. Perhaps because he is cool to Hooverism, whereas his newspaper is Hoover...
...supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachussetts and Long Island...
...first reading, this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...