Word: tela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports to take off U. S. refugees...
...securing the wager-which amounts to no less than 100 glasses of cold beer which is in no way affected by the 18th Amendment-we finally agreed upon you as the only suitable authority. The disputed sentence is as follows: "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela, the propeller of the plane was broken, necessitating a delay of two days while installing a new one." Our argument centers only on the grammatical correctness of the sentence structure. We both admit that the rhetoric of it is somewhat faulty but wish to know only if the sentence...
...sentence was ungrammatical: 100 glasses of cold beer. "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela" is a dangling phrase, since "propeller" and not "plane" is the subject of the sentence yet it was obviously the plane that did the "landing."-ED. Pornographer Stravinsky...
...full measure last week when Lindbergh piloted a Sikorsky amphibian from Miami 1,200 mi. over water to Cristobal, C. Z., inaugurating a new seven-day mail service from New York to Buenos Aires. The Caribbean hop cuts four days from the route previously used via Belize, Tela, Managua, David and Panama City. The new schedule calls for at least 1,000 mi of flight...
...month, Admiral Byrd, in sweater and dungarees, seemed to have changed little. The last stage of the photographs' journey was characteristic of the entire Byrd press exploit. Sent by ship from New Zealand, the pictures were picked up in Cristobal, C. Z. by Airman Lee Schoenhair, flown to Tela (Honduras), to Miami, to Richmond, to Newark. At Newark Airport agents from the Associated Press, Wide World Photos (New York Times) and the Paramount News divided them, raced to Manhattan to spread them nationwide. First to reach Manhattan was an Associated Press man on a motorcycle...