Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
...policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...
Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu, thus putting the first Stratocruiser into commercial service on the San Francisco-Honolulu eight-hour run. Next month a second plane will probably start on the New York-Bermuda run; by fall, Trippe's $30 million fleet of 20 Stratocruisers will be deployed over Pan American's global route pattern, boosting the airline's carrying capacity a huge 40%. They will further shrink a world which aviation long ago, for better or worse, made small...
Birdmen in Serge. From the start, Trippe's was a seagoing airline. His "captains" and "first officers," dressed in blue serge, talked in knots instead of miles per hour. On long overwater flights they flew by celestial navigation. While they piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west...
What entertaining they do is largely confined to aviation people or representatives of nations with which Pan American has air agreements. Adaptable Mrs. Trippe has had to learn to chat intelligently about everything from "chosen instruments" to wing loadings. She learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking...