Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* Flying from Mexico City to New York in three days for the Herrick funeral, Col. Lindbergh, No. i TJ. S. Hero, landed at Boiling Field, Washington, tarried 15 minutes. Across the watery field rushed worshipful crowds to greet him. Impatient, he taxied away, halting near a great mudpuddle. When the...
Oil conservation moved off in a new direction last week. The Federal board headed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to deal with this problem advised the American Petroleum Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little...
The University of Detroit Aero Society sponsored the organization conference. It tried to get representatives from the three dozen U. S. universities that countenance flying. Men from only 15 schools could afford to attend. They listened to, among others, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Associate...
Regretfully, disapprovingly Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith placed the tips of his fingers together and said, "Since the War we have become as bad a cocktail and Champagne country as you ever were in America. I am speaking not of the Americans who come to London but of English people themselves...
Even news of a royal prince-H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester-was subordinated last week to the following item which London's august Times placed prominently at the head of its daily column "News In Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at...