Word: orchards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
...first of Manhattan's tabloid newspapers. Under his daring guidance it became an undreamed of success. Such a success that William Randolph Hearst engaged Mr. Payne to edit his New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror jumped amazingly in circulation. Last week Philip A. Payne jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in Mr. Hearst's airplane the Old Glory; splashed into the rough and foggy sea, disappeared...
...Obscene words deleted.-ED. *It has been re-christened Old Orchard Country Club...
...John F. McGill suggested his Napa valley estate, airmailed his invitation and a folio showing panoramic views of the estate, interiors of his residence. Inducements: Six master's bedrooms, five baths, cherry orchard, model farm, $200,000 home, sunken gardens, terraced lawns, fountains of imported marble, 17 rooms, 2,000 acres. Location: Napa Valley, northern California...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan: "My 1,000-acre, $100,000 Wabeek Farms near Orchard Lake, Mich., have always shown a deficit. Whether this is because I, frankly, am 'no farmer' or because U. S. farming is fundamentally unprofitable, I do not know. To decide this point, I turned over Wabeek Farms last week for a five-year term, rent and tax free, to Mark N. Williamson, Michigan 'dirt' farmer, and his brother, Frank H., bookish graduate of Michigan State College and post-graduate of the University of Minnesota. Frank Williamson's statement that...