Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swallow, the only Wichita plant listed, is the first commercial plant and is the mother of no less than fifteen other plants throughout the United States that have sprung from it. The other plants we feel should be listed are Travel Air Mfg. Co., Inc., Stearman Aircraft Co., and the Cessna Aircraft Company...
...Swallow Airplane Co. Wichita, Kan. / Commercial / Light sport, commercial & training / . . . . . . . .$1,795-$9,000 / First commercial airplane makers...
...justice dropped easily back into the health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
Boots kicked in cellar windows. Shoulders crashed open the door. Then, while detectives stumbled down steep rickety stairs or dropped in through windows, "Diamond Jew" Rubenstein and friends cupped palms to their mouths, leaned back, and amazingly swallowed diamonds. Uncut stones too big to swallow were flung madly anywhere-behind the bar, into corners, out windows...