Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly the most decisive answer ever attained in the long history of Squire v. Farmer bickering was the result of their trip: a Mellon decision to close $2,500,000 Rolling Rock entirely, ship its horses elsewhere, sell its machinery, deprive Ligonier Valley of its $120,000 annual revenue. Said M. F. H. Mellon: "We have done everything we possibly could do. . . . Why, once we were selling eggs. The natives complained and we stopped. I have even gone so far as to ask my friends to purchase their toothbrushes and shotgun shells locally. There has been an unfriendly feeling...
...trip will be possible after April 28, when Pan American Airways begins flying passengers between Manila and Hong Kong (TIME, April 5). It can be made in 19 days. But United's round-the-world-trip allows 28, with sight-seeing along the way. Passengers will fly from Newark to San Francisco by United, to Hong Kong by Pan American, to Athens by Britain's Imperial Airways, to Milan by Italy's Ala Littoria and Avio Linee Italiane, to Frankfurt by Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.), to Lakehurst, N. J. on the Hindenburg, back to Newark...
...York on Saturday, the Crimson gathered in its first Intercollegiate Lesgue victory pasting Columbia for a 14-2 trimming. With the game held to seven innings due to extreme cold. Ed Ingalls kept the Lions at his mercy for his second win of the trip. Al Colwell, who had been held out of the carlier games because of a twisted knee, made his season debut by riding out a long home run into the Harlem River...
Winning two matches and losing one, the Crimson netmen enjoyed a fairly successful spring trip. On April 6 the team met defeat at the hands of the University of North Carolina, 8-1, but came back to tumble Duke, 8-1, and Navy, 7-2, on April 7 and 10 respectively...
...Capricornus took off from Southampton with five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help...