Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association of Commerce will bring forth a map-sprinkled plan to make Chicago as strategic to air transport as it is to the railroads. Chicago's genial Mayor Ed Kelly is preparing chest-thumping speeches to that effect; United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable for huge bases. The biggest: a $35,000,000 dream port on the lakefront...
...many a U.S. merchant seaman facing danger on the high seas, two organizations stand head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather...
...every man on the flight, giving them the news which was still withheld from the public-mainly because full publicity might have endangered some of the survivors.* Every letter was different. "They had to be different-like mine, for instance," said Captain Ted Lawson last week, pointing to the stump of his left leg. Said Lieut. C. L. McClure, a navigator whose shoulders were dislocated...
...Walter H. Judd, able surgeon, who returned to the U.S. in 1938 to stump for an embargo against Japan, after spending the better part of a decade as a medical missionary in China. Elected from Minnesota, dark-haired, bespectacled Republican Dr. Judd, 44, will give House stenographers a busy workout; his customary rate of speech is 240 words per minute (the norm...
...time for me to take off, so we ran across the primitive flying field to the already warming plane in which I was acting radioman. He laid his topee carefully on a palm stump so the slipstream wouldn't blow it off and climbed up on the wing beside my cockpit. 'So long!' he yelled above the roar of the motor. 'See you in Honolulu sometime.' Then he climbed down and stood for a few seconds with his head hanging in that quizzical way of his, his eyes looking up. Suddenly he clambered...