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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record (121.6 mi.) was made by du Pont last autumn in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, Elmira's rival as a U. S. soaring centre. Belittling his achievement, du Pont told newshawks: "All there was to the flight was finding clouds and going for them. ... I used a mountain only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer du Pont stayed up 5 min., won her "C" (soaring) license. Few days later she went up again, stayed more than 5 hr.. would have set a women's record had she carried a barograph...
...into the presence of Admiral Cantu and three Rear Admirals who were swapping yarns aboard his flagship. Instantly Admiral Cantu began to splutter orders. The Rear Admirals were piped off to their ships, engine room lights winked full speed ahead and Italy's first squadron tore for the mountain-jabbed coast of King Zog's Albania...
Thirty-one years ago the Iron Mountain Railroad (now part of the Missouri Pacific) floated a 30-year bond issue with the promise to repay the bonds when due in U. S. gold coin "of the present standard of weight and fineness." In May 1933 when the bonds were due, Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. demanded payment in gold or its equivalent in dollars. When this was refused, the bank took the question into Federal Court in St. Louis. Later Bankers Trust tried to withdraw its suit, but Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris refused permission, on the ground that...
With various Alabamian friends as guides he wandered over most of the State: through the Black Belt, studded with old plantations; the Red Hills, where the mountaineers still have no use for Ne groes or revenuers; the swampy Cajan country. He watched a Ku Klux meeting, was on the fringes of a lynching, visited with moonshiners, asked an old conjure woman for professional advice, heard a fiddlers' contest, listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being...
...mountaineers, many of them in shirtsleeves, played accordions, dulcimers, banjos, guitars. They sang, as they had heard their parents and grandparents sing, about Sourwood Mountain, turnip greens. old coon dogs, Napoleon Bonaparte. Because many an expert believes that these are the rarest of U. S. folksongs, cameramen were present to film the proceedings for the Library of Congress. Feature of the afternoon was supposed to be an Elizabethan wedding celebration in which Marion Kerby, Chicago ballad expert, soloed. But outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year...