Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip with instructive implications...
Though all but two members of the Macon's crew survived the disaster, public opinion turned strongly, swiftly against further experimentation with this type of aircraft. President Roosevelt summed it up when he announced that the U. S. would hereafter leave the development of dirigibles to Germany. Instead of replacing the Macon, he would put the same money into 50 long-range scouting planes. Utterly blasted was the long-cherished hope of raising U. S. capital, of winning U. S. public confidence for U. S. dirigibles in commercial service...
Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...
...Georgia's Representative Vinson, as chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, got the Macon named for the biggest town in his district...
...still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris ("Dee-Dee") grew up to be a moderately pretty blue-eyed blonde. Her height (5 ft. 8 in.) limited...