Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week William P. MacCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, announced that 23,310,355 miles had been flown by 1,536 commercial airplanes in the U. S. during 1926. His report included planes engaged in the mail service, passenger transport, exhibition flying, advertising, photography, crop dusting, etc. Adding the distance traveled by Army, Navy and Coast Guard planes, a total U. S. air mileage of 48,586,492 was recorded...
...fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit of Saul of Tarsus? It seemed barely possible...
...that he might go himself. Be that as it may, as he sat at one of the tables with an accomplice in crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space and some nine months back in time. For a few moments Symphony Hall was transformed. Instead of the galleries and plaster statues, a canepy of foliage rustled in the breeze over the heads of two wanderers who were seated at a little table. Close...
...audiences go, there is little difference between the two countries. A flat joke is a flat joke wherever it is. Of course, these cocktail jokes in "Oh, Please!" would have to be changed to transport the show abroad, but aside from that it could go just about...
Lately his twin daughters were elected to help transport the Vassar College daisy chain. Lately, too, authorized by the Princeton trustees, he forbade the young men of Princeton to keep automobiles at college (TIME, March...