Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural Cooperative Society, establishing banks, forming creamery and poultry groups. His now defunct magazine, the Irish Statesman (TIME, May 12), preached rural teamplay. He says his efforts at home, successful, are at an end. In the U. S. he plans to preach from lecture-platforms during a six-months tour...
Ford's Reliability. Edsel Bryant Ford, donor of the annual trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TiME, Sept. 29) last week (for the first time) saw it won by his own company's entry, a Ford 7-AT monoplane powered by one Wasp and two Wright J-6 engines. The winning pilot, Harry L. Russell, took the lead of the 18 contestants early in the 4,900 mi. race, gradually increased it through the two weeks of flying, finished the circuit at Detroit with 58,575 points. Until the final leg, Pilot Russell was always threatened...
...Last Tour...
...with a married man she liked better than any of them. Wrhen Driffield married again his second wife did her best to dragoon him into respectability, finally outwardly succeeded. Word came from the U. S. that Rosie was dead. But close-mouthed Ashenden knew better. On a lecture tour in the States he had had a note from her, had called to find her a widow in Yonkers. Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired, but just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden...
Reliability. The 30 planes in the sixth annual National Air Tour finished half of their 4,848-mi. trip last week at Great Falls, Mont. There, canny U. S. Customs agents, aware that the last stopping place had been in Canada, aware of the lusty thirsts of flying men, swarmed over the planes. From Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, tour official who had proudly led the flyers into his native state, they took six bottles of liquor and $30 in fines. From the cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order...