Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academically, Jimmy Thach ('27) was a less than middling middy, but his first plane ride, in a yellow twin-engined H16 seaplane, sent him soaring into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls...
...reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams will ride to glory past pinups of Caniff's (and NBC's) camp follower. Boomlay boom...
Jimenez' fictional pet. The poorer folk use them to haul firewood from the forests or farm produce to market. The children ride them to school...
...miles of the massive interstate system is already completed, another 3,159 miles abuilding. Within a year, says the Bureau of Public Roads, concrete results will become visible across the nation. In 1958 alone, $6.2 billion will be spent on public highways. And next year the figure will ride up to $7.1 billion, more than half the amount that travel-loving Americans are expected to spend on new cars in 1959. Total estimated road outlays from 1959 to 1962: $30.2 billion...
...Dressed in a blue suit, pink shirt and dark glasses, Jack is ready for the hired limousine that has come to take him to the show. He settles into the back seat with a groan, convinced that he is on a short ride toward disaster...