Word: round-the-world
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...found in the Post Office files showing that Mr. Brown's assistant, Warren Irving Glover, had protested against the Dollar Line's getting $42,000,000 a year in mail subsidy, saying: "Just as sure as God made little apples, if we go into this round-the-world contract on an other 10 or 12 or 15 million dollars . . . we will spill the American merchant marine program. We must not do anything to upset the political applecart, as that is our life blood. Congressman Free has absolutely told the Post Office Department, and he is very close...
Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...
...ready to receive our communications. We know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter 'S' is gone forever. But I have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick...
...four friends who paid a $500 repair bill for him after he cracked up in Chickasha, Okla. while preparing for his round-the-world flight, Flyer Wiley Post gave checks for twice that...
...socially celebrated love match. They departed on a round-the-world cruise in the Warrior. They returned and bought Elbert H. Gary's mansion at 94th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He bought her more expensive clothes and jewels (including one of the world's finest emerald necklaces) than are worn by any other woman in Manhattan. He provided her with a house at Palm Beach, built her a magnificent house on Long Island...