Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain René Fonck, War ace president of the Aeronautic League of France: "A Manhattan perfumer, a Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...
...Significance of this swift fantasy may be partly understood from the fact that it quickly sold into 58 editions last summer abroad. Only one side of a tremendous issue is represented, and that in light journalistic burlesque. As literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen...
...faith in Coolidge is completely shattered these days. I used to like the brother. When he was respectful enough of a man's religion to give Al Smith the only fish he caught all summer, I actually admired him. And when I saw ho his influence had made for better roads near Plymouth, I even praised...
...spoiled. Ever since that time when he refused his secretary a lily cup out of pure economy he's been no true son of Vermont, for we're not like that (cheers), honestly we're not. The mayor of my town has two suits of winter underwear--one for summer...