Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sought out by newshawks last week, the scattered crew of the America made characteristic comments. Said Byrd in Little Rock, Ark.: "I have no objection to Mr. Fokker's saying that Balchen did the better job on the transatlantic flight than I did. I have always felt that way myself." Said Bernt Balchen, shy by nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took...
...National Biscuit 4,665 4,840 National Cash Register 912 373 D Otis Steel 634 20 Packard Motor Car 2,654 113 du Pont 17,347 12,656 Studebaker 1,343 809 Texas Gulf Sulphur 3,803 2,448 Westinghouse Electric 4,546 2,885D White Rock 257 2,885D
Latest U. S.-owned steamer to get in Yangtze trouble is the Iping. Scuddling down the river's rapids, she bumped herself on a rock, limped on, ran a gauntlet of Communist fire, escaped toward Ichang. Next day "friendly" Government artillery suddenly surprised the Iping with shrapnel, desperately wounded two Chinese passengers, put a slug in the leg of Leo Bradley, able seaman U. S. N. Promptly other U. S. Naval guards on the Iping got her guns into action, silenced the Chinese battery with an Imperialist cannonade...
...paragraphs: " 'Well, well, well,' George Gipp must be saying just about now, 'Look who's here. Welcome home. Rock." "And there in that happy land, beyond the black, where the stadium is of silver, the goal posts of gold and all games are won, those two whose friendship and affection became one of football's finest sagas must be clasping hands in joyous grip again...
...Little Rock, Ark., in a hotel H. G. Lansdale of Atlanta, Ark. telephoned the desk clerk, complained that W. U. McCabe. Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room. Said H. G. Lansdale: "If you don't stop that rumpus I will." Forthwith he stomped into the room, shot and critically wounded Legislator McCabe...