Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were on the move. At Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps of Havana and Santiago, practiced the "occupation and pacification of towns," while awaiting overseas orders. When a formation of six big Navy seaplanes whizzed over Cuba in a non-stop record flight from Norfolk to Panama natives thought U. S. forces had already intervened...
...Binghamton station on its way from Chicago to Jersey City. All of its eight cars were of heavy steel except the third from the rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie workers going home to Susquehanna, Pa. Near the Binghamton city line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle...
From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well...
...MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic...
...best results oratorically." In one church where he was to "supply" for several Sundays, a clock was placed in the pulpit with a sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." But "when Dr. Morrison preaches he preaches and a little thing like a clock and an inscription warning him to stop in 30 minutes is as futile as a snowball in the tropics...