Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first transatlantic airplane crossing was not made, as you said it was, by two Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber [July 12]. It was made by six Americans in a Navy NC4 flying boat under Lieut. Commander Albert Gushing Read, U.S.N. This "forgotten" first crossing was made in May, 1919 (Newfoundland-Azores-Lisbon), a month earlier than that by Alcock and Brown in their bomber (Newfoundland-Ireland). The Britons collected the ?10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion...
...read with interest your article regarding the aggressive market-development work of the H. J. Heinz Co. [July 12]. I am sure it would be of interest to your readers to know that of the 11.5 lbs. per capita annual consumption of beans in Britain, a major part of these are grown in Michigan. Michigan farmers, who produce 99% of the navy beans grown in the U.S., used as baked beans in the U.K., sold 1,091,000 hundred-pound bags of beans to the U.K. in 1966, the last year for which the figures are available. Since...
...primaries and partly to his essentially passive view of the Presidency. One prominent Kennedyite in search of a new flag had a talk with McCarthy and reported later: "From what he says, he'd turn the conduct of the office over to a committee and go off and read books. That scares the hell...
...strange manner in which the type is set up is quite striking. By running a clear plastic ruler, available at the Coop, under the lines across the back you will find that it makes fascinating reading: "Follow her down to a bridge by a stepping outside she is free. Then you may find peace of mind is good morning, Good morning." Many times the ruler will cut off some lines in the middle, while lying correctly under others. This forces you to skip columns as you read across on particular lines. I can't help feeling there is something significant...
...society of Americans that has watched hour-long Walt Disney TV programs about how he puts together the plastic rhinos in the jungle waters of Disneyland, a society that rips through the latest issues of Playboy and Esquire to read about the technical aparatus behind the gimmicks in the James Bond movies, a society that fills its newsstands with dozens of pulp magazines about the off-screen identities of its on-screen stars--these are pretty sophisticated movie-watchers...