Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pleasure Trip. With his valet and two Dutch pilots,. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, left Amsterdam, Holland, last week in a Fokker monoplane to fly to the Dutch East Indies. Leisurely, he hopped to Budapest-thence to Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad. . . . Crash & Fire, Three miles from Le Bourget (Paris air port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives...
Last week parents paid school term bills with a twinge at the expense and a wonder of their offsprings' futures. Teachers sighed over their final salary checks, for the study trip they could not afford. Alumni poured money into class funds, and school heads calculated how to ask for more...
Cancelled Stamps. Postmaster General Harry S. New reprimanded Fred Sealy, Hempstead, L. I., postmaster, because he had cancelled air mail stamps on 250 letters which Passenger Levine carried across the Atlantic. Neither Levine nor Chamberlin had any right to carry U. S. mail. Furthermore, the cancellation and the trip to Europe increased the value of each stamp from a few cents to $50 to $1,000, according to varying estimates. Several dozen of the letters bearing these stamps were said to be addressed to Passenger Levine...
...would always want to write seemed likely when, aged 10, in Concord, N. H., he put his money, earned by raking leaves, into a hand printing press and began publishing a weekly newspaper in his attic. He was "romantically mechanical"; built a balloon that burned up on its first trip...
During the Christmas vacation the club will make a Canadian trip giving concerts at Montreal and Toronto among other Canadian cities. Only two concerts in the course of the trip will be given in the United States, one at Philadelphia and one in New York...