Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night-saving one business...
...calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...spent most of his life in the U. S. For eight years he taught Economics at the College of the City of New York. As a certified public accountant he had as a client the Theatre Guild, for which he devised a "fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were two of his assignments. He has been a consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished...
...theatre ticket service whereby seats may be obtained at box-office prices by mail orders sent at least one week before the performance date. There is no charge for the service. To combat scalping. Life seats are not delivered to buyers until after 8 p. m. on the performance night...
...elimination race to see who shall represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race abroad. Night came on. Rain, snow, conflicting winds buffeted the bags. Some bumped into mountains, crashed into barns. One was almost run down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy...