Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Attorney General Frank Murphy, accompanied by Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...
...transcontinental lecture tour punctuated by stops in a score of States and the birth of a new grandson ("Little John" Boettiger) in Seattle, had seen and been seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still people who think that we can cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, but more people are less secure in this belief...
This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille...
...himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...
...First the hydrogens, clothed in brilliant red, appear and trip through a gay waltz expressive of their joy at the escape from the harsh gas laws that usually confine them. Then two atoms in black, carbons, emerge and grab four hydrogens each. Their kinetic freedom lost, the hydrogens now execute vibrations around the carbon atoms (methane...