Word: looping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still in his 20's. At that point he turned his back on railroading, entered the millinery firm of Stumer, Rosenthal & Eckstein. Following interests have been real estate, particularly in Chicago's loop, where he is part owner of several office-buildings; the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., of which he is a director; publishing (he founded The Red Book in 1903 and The Blue Book shortly after; sold both last year); and chain drugstores (Buck & Raynor chain, sold to Liggett...
...world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride, and so he has been able to show the Woolworth Building to New Yorkers, Independence Hall to Philadelphians, and the Loop to the inhabitants of our Western metropolis. And similarly he will not forget to teach Bay Staters to browse beside their far-sung rocks and rills...
...height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like Illinois Sell Telephone. Western Union, Western Electric, hired whole floors in Loop (downtown) hotels to house their snow-bound workers. Motoring to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia with five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs were engulfed by drifts, had to borrow money from one prisoner to carry the penal party through by rail...
...Last Loop. "He ascended on Oct. 27, 1918, only two weeks before the end of the War. He attacked and crashed one enemy plane. Another attacked him. He was wounded in the right thigh, but sent the enemy down in flames. An entire formation of German Fokkers attacked him from all sides. Shot this time in the left thigh, he sent down two more planes. He lost consciousness for a few minutes, but recovered from his dive and singled out one of the following enemy planes. He sent it, also, to earth in flames. His left elbow was shattered...
...ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having shot down 68 enemy planes before they...