Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before ordering this long trip through Japanese-controlled waters, U. S. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Comrnander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, asked Japanese sanction. Last week Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of Japan's China Fleet, firmly refused. His reasons: 1) possible interference with Japanese naval strategy; 2) the Monocacy might strike a Chinese mine; 3) the gunboat might be mistakenly fired upon by Japanese shore batteries, producing another Panay type incident; 4) the Japanese consider the recently captured Matung boom below Kuikiang "a prize of war" which no U. S. ship...
...Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around the top of the world. He soared into the substratosphere, landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York ten hours, 32 minutes and 20 seconds later, faster by a half-hour than any transport plane had ever made the trip before. At an average altitude of 17,000 feet, Howard Hughes and companions found the new oxygen mask comfortable, efficient. Designed by Mayo Clinic Surgeon Richard Lovelace, the mask mixes air with oxygen, eliminates sore throats from raw oxygen fed by other devices. Unimpressed was Howard Hughes when unofficial timers informed...
...Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly bewildered by shouting: "Hello, Hello! Is this A. Hitler? This is A. Pickus of Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A." Last week Mr. Pickus announced he had decided to make a personal trip to Europe, have it out in heart-to-hearts with Hitler and Mussolini...
...first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...
Last week, back from his annual trip to Scandinavia where Scott buys much of its wood pulp, President McCabe told of his amazement when a Finnish pulp man in a small northern town asked him : "Do you believe Jimmy Roosevelt is making as much money out of his insurance business as the Saturday Evening Post says...