Word: midget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under patronage of the American Museum of Natural History, the expedition hopes to make friends of the Ituran pigmy people by feeding them cake and candy. The pigmies may then lead Jungleer Johnson to the hidden lairs of the midget red buffalo, elephant, hippopotamus where, guarded by his sharpshooting wife, he will photograph and sound-record the awesome sights and sounds of an African jungle, by day and night...
...midget road for a test case, the O'Fallon carries coal over a nine-mile track in Southern Illinois. It is owned largely by the Adolphus Busch estate which also owns the Manufacturers' R. R., a 20-mile system in Missouri physically unconnected with the O'Fallon...
...valuation issue with its corollary, confiscation, was clearly posed. The O'Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal...
Peculiar was the trifling 600-lb. plane tested at Akron, Ohio, last week by Vearne Clifton Babcock, designer. Wings taper from narrow tips to broad bases at the fuselage. The fuselage is slim, rudder and stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...
...Coney Island, N. Y., one Ali Afgudiniali, a Hindu watchman, was robbed by three men. With two of them he fought bravely but when he saw that the third was a midget not more than a yard high with a huge horrible head and the hands of a pudgy baby, he tried to run away...