Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current issue of TIME (May 29) under Aeronautics I was somewhat surprised at some of the statements. In the first place, if I stay on earth till June 6 I will have been here 63 years. I have been in the balloon business over 30 years. I have never filled a bag in ten minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others...
...each mayor was the same: municipal credit with local banks was exhausted. Default on municipal securities loomed.∙ Taxpayers were on a silent strike. The cost of unemployment relief continued to soar. Jobs and salaries had been cut and cut again and still the municipal budget would not stay balanced for a week at a time...
This year's Mayors' Conference lacked Detroit's redheaded, vociferous Murphy, now Governor General of the Philippines, who at last year's meeting shouted longest and loudest for a helping hand from the Federal Government. Last week Acting Mayor Couzens had to stay in Detroit to help work out a deal for refunding the city's $352,000,000 debt at lower interest rates with banker-creditors. Nor was New York's O'Brien in the Mayflower's Chinese Room to tell his fellow mayors how he had economized and economized until...
...chance to be a star but by a mysterious young song writer (Dick Powell) in love with a dancer (Ruby Keeler 1. He turns out to be a rich Boston socialite. When his older brother (Wrarren William) and the family attorney (Kibbee) arrive to break up his romance, they stay to marry two of the dancer's friends. All this farcical to-do is interrupted from time to time by songs, which may well become as popular as the ones in 42nd Street, called "We're in the Money," "Petting in the Park...
...event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute, but now he felt he must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone pole, spilling out such an enormous belch of black smoke...