Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a strange squadron of cavalry clattered into El Paso, Tex. Its 180 horses and 200 men rode in trucks and trailers. They had just completed a tedious 630-mi. trip across the scorching Big Bend Desert to Terlingua and were returning to be reviewed by Major General Frank R. McCoy. The officers in charge felt they had proved the value of motorized cavalry travel to save the energy of men & mounts until the scene of battle is reached, just as racehorses are vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would...
...grand balloon ascension. One night last week at the world's greatest fair. 40,000 persons crowded into Chicago's Soldier Field to see what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic...
...pitching for a minor league team in Oklahoma in 1924. By 1927 he had advanced so little that Detroit farmed him out with five minor league teams be fore they decided that he was not worth keeping. Two years later, a Giant scout saw him pitching in Beaumont, Tex. and persuaded Manager John McGraw to hire him. In May 1929, in his ninth complete major league game, Carl Hubbell pitched a no-hit game against Pittsburgh. Lazy and solemn in action, particularly fond of a "screw-ball" which breaks sharply down and away from batters, Pitcher Hubbell thinks...
Stephenville, Tex...
...girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...