Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. Army and Navy brasshat has publicly echoed the fervid words of his present Commander-in-Chief, "I hate war." Few would deny that they love to play at war, particularly when they may pick their own playgrounds and seasons. Last week two of 1937's three major U. S. war games were in full roar...
...from Eastern Air Lines, flew to England fortnight ago in 21 hr., 3 min. (TIME, May 17), loose-spoken Radio Commentator Boake Carter snapped into his microphone: "Stunt flights across the ocean had their place at one time. Now Aviation has advanced beyond that point. Hopping to London to pick up some Coronation pictures and then fly back again may be a spectacular thing-but what does it contribute to the industry? Nothing as far as one can see. The country doesn't want that kind of pilot addicted to the lure of this kind of flight...
...dies slowly; and I would not admit, even to myself, that the "wrong" was entirely with TIME. I thought something had happened to me. It was as if a trusted yardstick appeared to shrink. So, I've checked myself by other reading. In the midst of TIME I pick up something else-anything else. A former impossibility has become a habit...
...Haven & Hartford R. R. to try a faltboat train. This week it will run from Manhattan to Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including one dangerous one) to Flanders, Conn., where the train will pick them up again. Cost of ticket: $2.25. Rent of a faltboat: $4 for a single-seater, $7 for a tandem...
...robbers work often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...