Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death in a Fokker transport in 1931 banished Fokker planes from U. S. skies. With Fokker and his plant gone, Teterboro sank into obscurity and neglect...
Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...
...Wallendas, originators of the breathtaking moving human pyramid on the high wire, and their Ringling colleagues, the Grotofents, have felt the pressure of competition from the Cole Bros.-Beatty team of the Gretonas. One of the Gretonas goes out on the wire and, holding precariously onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...
Anyone, says the catalogue, who ever held a pole in his hand, or drowsed for an hour or two on the bank of a stream will find plenty to interest him in the Fearing Collection, which reviews the history of the angling art from its earliest origins and one of the finest ever assembled on the subject...
...expedition's $100,000 deficit. When the long tour ends in May, the Admiral, who, while changing trains in his blue uniform has sometimes been taken for a porter or stationmaster, will have told 1,250,000 people in 250 cities about the South Pole. It was during a lull in this tour that Hero Byrd again thought of peace. He publicly promised last summer to "start my work for international amity." Three months ago he wrote a letter to Nicholas Murray Butler urging a six months' "moratorium" on war, soon thereafter accepting Mrs. Roosevelt's invitation...