Word: shetlands
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...compete with Pan American Airways (five commercial flights weekly), and American Export Airlines (three flights), B.O.A.C. will use three Boeing 314s, for which the British paid $3 million in 1941 for service between London and West Africa. But before the summer season ends, London reported, B.O.A.C. may get two Shetland flying boats built by Short Brothers, Ltd., for the Royal Navy...
...attributing it to a hillbilly constituent: "It's never a good idea to change horses in the middle of a stream. But if I ever come to that pass where I've got to consider doing it, I will sure draw the line at changing to a Shetland pony...
...thing about George Gallowhur's story is that he was born well-heeled: his mother's family founded prosperous Westvaco Chlorine Products Corp., also owned Warner Bros. Co. (corsets). His father came of an old Icelandic family that settled in Pennsylvania, originally had a strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe...
...West Baltimore. Hoggie was no Lothario, "he was actually almost a Trappist in his glandular life," but he was a master at killing rats and murdering cats. Hoggie fell from his pedestal the awful day his glands began to function, and Mencken transferred his loyalty to an instructive Shetland pony called Frank...
...have seen a minor American diplomat recently accredited to a small Balkan State moving homeward over a crowded road, with 13 suitcases and a Hungarian wolfhound half the size of a Shetland pony. By some strange freak of international diplomatic courtesy the 13th suitcase and the hound had priority over fighting men equally anxious to get along in the westward stream...