Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...
Recurring like seven year locusts are Canadian rumors of U. S. annexation or invasion of Canada. Last week a struggling, as-yet-unsuppressed Toronto scandal-sheet, Hush, "The Newspaper with a Heart," published the following...
...Guggenheim fortune began with laces and embroideries in Philadelphia, whither Meyer Guggenheim migrated from Switzerland in 1848. Meyer and Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...
...baggage in a rear compartment smashed through a thin partition and clumped upon the passengers. Struggling desperately, four passengers, the pilot and mechanic kicked and tore their way out of the fuselage. They went back in and tried to haul the baggage off the others. As they worked the seven drowned. It was the fifth worst accident in air history. Friends of flying faced it frankly, studied the details for lessons in the progressive art of air safety...
...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...