Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sky Club, Bettis Field Airport, the Pittsburgh Symphony under Antonio Modarelli gave its first open air popular concert, drew such a crowd that its executive board met impromptu, immediately announced a second...
...very day that he planned to take his resignation to the White House, the Supreme Court rocked the New Deal with its NRA decision. Loyally pocketing his resignation, Mr. Kennedy went back to work because he was too good a policeman to desert his post when the sky seemed to be falling on the White House...
Last week President Roosevelt came down from principle to practice on his social tax program. To his air-cooled White House office he called Chairman Robert L. Doughton, a potent handful of Ways & Means Committeemen and several tax experts to face with him the fact that sky-high rates on a few very rich men and a few very large estates would produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled...
...minute bells were ringing, sirens screaming all over the countryside. Truckloads of soldiers, storm troopers, police, and labor service units were mobilized to keep order. Private automobiles were commandeered to carry dead and wounded. It did not take the shattered windows, the bits of blackened debris dropping from the sky, to tell what had happened: the West-phalian Anhalt munitions works were blowing...
Since then reports on a few minor crashes have dribbled into the U. S. Press, attracted little attention. Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down...