Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army plane, chased by other Soviet craft and fired at by Soviet frontier guards, skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
...agent of Wells-Fargo who succeeds in following the westward-moving American frontier and in linking it with the east through a network of outpost stations. Bob Burns, in a surprisingly becoming coonskin cap, fits well into the pioneer times, and Frances Dee is charming as Mr. McCrea's southern wife...
...Amelia Earhart Putnam and her copilot, Fred Noonan, who in the summer planned to encircle the globe by a southern route (1 were unable to take off from the San Francisco airport and therefore gave up their plans, 2 were lost in the Pacific, 3 completed their flight successfully, 4 did not have sufficient funds to complete the flight, 5 were stopped by George P. Putnam, the aviatrix's husband...
...president of Commonwealth & Southern, big utility holding company, is willing to change the method of figuring power rates to conform with the President's insistence that utilities property valuations should be based on (1 cost of production, 2 cost of reproduction, 3 what was prudently and honestly invested, 4 estimates of tax experts, 5 the cost-plus plan...
...Paul H. Buck will speak tomorrow night on "The Experiment of the Southern Confederacy," and Professor Edward K. Rand will deliver a "great author" series lecture on "Horace" Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock...