Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth, instantly killed Stunt...
...rebels, they stormed, like a salesman's convention, Every jail in the land that was worthy of mention, Till only a person of power and pull Could get into prison-the prisons were full...
...rough. In the Freie Zeitung's plant they established their new English paper confident that the thriving port of Newark (pop. 439,506) could well support a second morning paper. The only competition, the Newark Ledger, is a tabloid. The new publishers figured their English paper should even pull its elder German brother out of the hole. Pleased and curious, Newark bought daily an average of 21,000 copies of the new Free Press on its first four days of publication...
...close together that the resting shifts of black stokers jibed at each other across the dividing strip of foamy yellow-brown water. Coming into Cincinnati, special policemen sweated to keep order in the dense auto lines of spectators along the river side streets. Here the Tom Greene began to pull away, was a half-mile ahead just past the city and finished the 21 mi. course at Coney Island with the Betsy Ann out of sight around the bend behind...
...civic luncheon was scheduled to begin the opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost...