Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into action last week went the first transcontinental airway ever born full grown. It was also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
Eight years are the probable span allotted him for this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For the first time since 1871 Congress adjourned to honor the death of a Pope...
...industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel...
Finley opened the debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
Montaigne had been a Christian, one of the Millions of men who over a span of two millenniums had flocked to the banner of "the stranger of Galilee." And never was the word "stranger" better used than in describing Jesus, whose followers could not decide if He was God or man or prophet or fanatic, whose teachings had inspired mystics and had been endorsed by cold logicians. Perhaps His words pointed the way to Veritas. The rich verses of the King James version flowed through the Vagabond's mind...