Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest fine ever assessed in U. S. history was the $29,000,000 penalty which Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped on the old Standard Oil Co.-a fine which was never paid. Last week President Roosevelt came near Judge Landis' mark. By canceling all airmail contracts he in effect fined the stockholders of U. S. aviation companies an estimated $20,000,000, all because of the dubious methods employed by some of their company officers getting airmail contracts (see p. 30). There was a good chance, moreover, that, unlike Standard Oil, aviation stockholders would pay, for with air contracts...
Martial law was instantly declared in Vienna and all Upper Austria and the troops called out. Machine guns riddled the Socialist headquarters at Linz. Mountain batteries smashed the barricades of Socialist workmen in the Danube shipyards. Armored trucks with blazing guns tore up & down the streets of Vienna. The Government outlawed the Socialist Party; and Heimwehr youths in grey-green overcoats and steel helmets took possession of Vienna's city hall, for years a Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some...
...aviation industry worth mentioning. The Army and Navy did all the flying. In 1925 the Government awarded its first airmail contract to a private operator. A year later came the Air Commerce Act, and the beginnings of an airway system. Landing fields were hewn out of desert and mountain land. Beacon lights blossomed amid snow-capped peaks. The mail went through, at $3 a pound, with the pilot sitting on a parachute. Now and then, when a certain St. Louis mail pilot came roaring in with capers which today would bring instant dismissal, the Chicago field manager would shout: "Bellies...
...Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season, his team moved toward another championship by beating Alabama 26-to-21. In the Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left...
...Adamics visited Galichnik, a little mountain "village of grass widows," whose men, famed stonecutters and masons, go out to work all over the world, come home for a month in the summer, if they are not too far away. In Montenegro Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer...