Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just three months old, the twin-motored, ten-passenger Lockheed-Electra City of Memphis was on its regular run from New Orleans to Chicago, Chicago & Southern Air-Lines' sole route. At St. Louis, motors and controls were examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime...
White-robed Shinto priests purify War Minister-General-Count Juichi Terauchi by pouring holy water from a dipper over his hands before he goes in to pray for the Army (see cut). Last week on his sole responsibility the pious count gave the Army its greatest shaking-up of all time, ordered promotions and transfers affecting 3,000 officers. This came as what Minister Terauchi hoped will be the last drastic step needed to restore the Army to subordination after part of it got out of hand last February, tried to murder the Premier and for a time defied...
...Berlin's huge Olympic Stadium, packed by 110,000 spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner...
...miles of U. S. rural road, backbone is the state system of 324,000 miles of primary highways, of which only one-half is hard surface, between towns. Usually considered the world's finest network, it is really, according to Expert McClintock, an inadequate, unscientific hodgepodge. Sole idea behind most of the system was to have bigger, harder roads. These inevitably caused more accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts now recognize as a fundamental necessity - automatic means to correct the driver's mistakes. Nearly 97% of the primary system, which today carries 65% of U. S. traffic...
...meantime, regulating drivers and automobiles are the sole makeshifts. In the driver's case, expert analysis proves that 15% of them cause nearly 100% of the accidents. These accident-prone drivers (whether speed maniacs, psychopaths, drunks or morons) can be policed off the roads. In this regard the states fail miserably. Four impose no restrictions on drivers; eight require only that a certain age be reached; twelve grant licenses on mere application; 24 require tests, which are almost universally insufficient. For the other 85% of drivers the great need is instruction. Indiana leads the way here, requiring 20 hours...