Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. At Villacoublay, second largest airport in France, a mammoth hangar collapsed, killed Antoine Rouverie, general manager of the field. During the three worst days of the storm, all commercial flying ceased in northern France...
Last week unexpected aid came to the Hoover industrial program from a bull outside the herd. Irving T. Bush,* head of Brooklyn's mammoth Bush Terminal, announced the completion of three years of negotiations in the formation of Bush Service, Inc., U. S. A. The new company combines the facilities of the Bush Terminal with those of Lassen & Co., a Swiss holding company that controls 54 distributing agencies throughout Europe. Fifty one percent of the stock of the new company is held by Bush Terminal. Inc. For the smaller exporter Bush Service Corp. will do, roughly, what is done...
...number and very diversified in character, and contrary to the opinion of many people are primarily for those who are seeking additional opportunity to take courses, not for scholastic lame ducks who have had difficulty in regular term time and are atoning for their negligence. They range from the mammoth organizations which have 13,000 students on their rolls, to small schools specializing in some particular field of research. This organization as to terms is widely varied, and their general administration bears more of the close similarity which is characteristic of the regular college...
...Monday evening came the President's great state dinner for his distinguished guest, now his friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
...Herbert Fleishhacker, San Francisco scion, mammoth Stanford footballer, was a marshal, strode about the course in a bright yellow...