Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andes, and into El Palomar airport at Buenos Aires last week roared six of the U. S. Army's new flying fortresses-four-motored bombers each manned by eight men. They had made the 5,225-mile flight in record time (34 hr. 14 min.) with only one stop at Lima, Peru. Purpose of the longest "good will" flight in Army aviation records was to represent the U. S. at the inauguration of Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz (see p. 24)-conveniently scheduled three weeks after the good will flight of three Italian planes to Rio de Janeiro...
Just west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar...
Soviet posters and pictures of Stalin were stuck up by the Communists. Under its architect-director, Manuel Sanchez Areas, the Propaganda Ministry proceeded to cry down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...
...build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short of the Canadian border.) His is concrete just heavy enough to stand up under mounted 8-inch guns. And his flowered, shrubbed and lighted super-speedways would be effective aerial guides, could quickly be shut off in sections to provide emergency landing fields. But that...
...clever parliamentary maneuver that the group in favor of the oath managed to stop the measure dead in its tracks. After a rising vote in which members of the upper house voted 17-17, President Wragg broke the deadlock by speaking up for repeal. Immediately Senator Halvey of Rowley who had abstained from voting on the first and second readings recorded himself as against the bill...