Word: parks
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Developed by the Army Air Technical Service and the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the specially reeled wire, with a weighted parachute attached at the starting point, snakes out of coils in the plane at 250 ft. a second. The Tennessee-North Carolina line was turned over to the National Park Rangers, served for five weeks until a sleet storm sheathed the wire with ice and caused a break. By & large, wire-laying by plane is useful only in emergency: flood, earthquake...
Returning refreshed from Hyde Park, and no longer skittish about saying that he had been there (see PRESS), Franklin Roosevelt plunged into a full week...
...merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed as a gift from the Sultan of Morocco.) As to the crown, said Eleanor with a smile, she never wears...
Before Westbrook Pegler could open his mouth, the White House gave out the news: Franklin Roosevelt had been to Hyde Park and was back on the job. Pegler had said that next time he heard of a blacked-out Presidential trip to Hyde Park, he would defy censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White...
...follow blustery Pegler's latest scheme to win enemies & influence circulation: a one-man campaign to smash the voluntary wartime code of censorship, which all U.S. newspapers adhere to. Away with secrecy on the President's movements, said Pegler; next time Franklin Roosevelt goes to Hyde Park, I'll say so (if I find out about...