Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealt with in a manner typical of the way nearly all great matters in the Fatherland today turn upon personal contacts with Adolf Hitler and his personal reactions. Much of the time the Führer is inaccessible to even extremely prominent officials, mystically cogitating in his Bavarian mountain retreat some 400 miles from Berlin. To get the ear of the Leader, much less to secure one of his usually long-delayed decisions, is an achievement in itself, but recently Army Commander-in-Chief Colonel General von Fritsch and a group of his brother generals found a magnificent excuse...
...days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...
...else, some of the boys clamber up the shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...
Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz...
Price begins at The Bellevue, Intervale $3.50 Brocklebank Hotel, New London 3.00 Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway 3.50 Kearsage Hotel, Portsmouth 1.50 Laconia Tavern, Laconia 1.50 Lancaster Inn, Lancaster 4.00 Lebanon Inn, Lebanon 1.50 Lee's Hotel, Littleton 3.50 Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln 4.00 McKenzies, Franconia 5.00 Mount Belknap...