Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking 28 minutes against the mule's ten days...
...island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully in a waterfront saloon...
...trailer Paulists reported to headquarters that they were doing well. Their first mass, in Cowan, Tenn., attracted only three people, but their second, in Tullahoma, drew 15. At Decherd, trucks brought curious and friendly Protestants to see St. Lucy. Children gaped and enjoyed the services. On a return trip to Cowan, 250 people attended a meeting and the mayor urged the Paulists: "Hurry back...
...London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing...
...comrades who got themselves in jail. When Hitler was imprisoned after the 1923 ''Beer Hall Putsch," Ludecke was sent on a begging tour of the U. S., where he negotiated - unsuccessfully - with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip-this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades- he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit he married a plain, sensible librarian...