Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
...decide what to do next. It is Leon Errol's picture, and the best stretches are those in which, postponing as long as possible the moment for the next conference, he extemporizes while the cameras watch. He is perfectly cast as a kleptomaniac. When he needs a smoke, the man sitting next him in the Pullman smoking room misses some cigars. When the train goes through a short tunnel, the same passenger also misses his ticket. Arriving at his destination, a health farm, Errol poses as a detective and makes a bellboy (Stuart Erwin) admire him so much that...
...pinewoods, fields of broomstraw, greywhite cotton acres ruled off with black furrows. Beyond Spartanburg, S. C. the passengers could see King's Mountain thrusting its razor back out of the foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field...
...route to Baltimore's Logan Field the traveler can look down upon the Patapsco fc (Water-Of-Many-White-Caps) River at the spot where, on a British warship in 1814, Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
Delaware River where within ten minutes the plane darts from Delaware to New Jersey to Pennsylvania and back to New Jersey. The last leg of the northbound flight raises the grey spires of Princeton before the plane drops down on the smoke-plumed Jersey meadows at Newark Airport...