Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...linear distance of the Spokane-New York-Spokane shuttle is 7,200 miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York...
Manganese. Hard and tough as the jaws of a rock breaker is steel containing manganese. Great U. S. steel companies search the world over for manganese ore, use some 675,000 tons of it per year. Free-listed in the tariff acts of 1909 and 1913, manganese ore was taxed 1 cent per lb. by the 1922 law to protect domestic production in 30 states...
That is the way the strip looked upon its arrival in the office of the Kansas City Times. But readers saw no snake when the strip was published in the Times. In place of the snake appeared a toad, hurriedly scratched in. In place of the stick was a rock. In place of the blurbs were other blurbs: "Don't let that toad get away. One of you pick up a rock or something and kill it! . . . EEEEEEK! She picked up the TOAD to hit the ROCK with...
...strewed the highway with a tonneau full of fragile young ladies, escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...
Linz on the Danube is large, modern, comparatively prosperous. There are large iron works and ship yards for building river boats. Perched dramatically on a pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect...