Word: ruppert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little America, Admiral Byrd blasted a greeting on the Jacob Ruppert's whistle. Five hundred celebrants at Ketchikan, Alaska waded through snowdrifts for a dance. Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week. Convicts at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet had their work day reduced from eight hours...
...Ruppert Hampton, also a representative of the Highland Folk School, depicted the character of the work done at the school, playing some of the representative ballads and folk songs on the piano...
James Dombrowski and Ruppert Hampton, graduates of the Union Theological School and representing the Highlanders Folk School, will speak before the Liberal Club on the topic "The N.R.A. Codes in the South" at the meeting to be held at 7.30 o'clock Thursday evening, in the Lowell House Common Room...
...gear, for a reconnaissance flight. In the take-off the wind whipped the skis back until they hung vertically from beneath the plane. Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove in the icy blast, saw that the skis indeed were dangling, that nothing could be done about...
...score of the Ruppert's crew scrambled out upon the ice with fire extinguishers, bandages and iodine ready for a bad crash. In less skillful hands than Pilot June's the plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...