Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldiers. Planes are no good without good men. To train its flying men, U. S. Army Air Corps has invested $16,833,733.50 in Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the unprecedented total of 440 cadets, 93 student officers, nine National Guard officers. If academic mortality holds up, about half of these will fail, 7% of the graduates eventually will receive Regular Army commissions. Remainder will put in some time at Army pay, go into reserve, await the next...
...appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there in 60 million years...
After the fight, 28-year-old Tony Galento announced his two ambitions: to knock out Joe Louis and to endorse a brand of beer. "Most of these here guys that endorse beer never drank a bottle." he swaggered. "Me, I train on it. The public would have some confidence in what I say about beer...
Samuel Calthrop, born too early, reaped nothing but satisfaction from registering his train with the U. S. Patent Office. It was not until hard times sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...
...saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes with electrocution...