Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this was to the Fourth City can be outlined briefly: It reduced Detroit-New York passenger fare more than under that in effect over the next-best air routeing. It has carried some 1,900 eastbound passengers out of Detroit in less than a year...
...from the breasts of twenty-four women, who knelt naked before him . . . only mothers of recently born children. . . . Dr. O'Malley, surgeon to King Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White Elephant walked sedately behind the women and put his trunk over their shoulders. Most of them collapsed after the ordeal, for the White Elephant was very exacting. Beside Dr. O'Malley walked a servant bearing a tray with numerous hypodermics of strychnine, nitroglycerine and other heart stimulants, and the doctor needed them all. When the British captured Burma they...
...Mais ils sont fantastique!" cried Consul Bourguin and purchased a bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul...
...Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk were the Israel Symphony, the Psalms, the Trois Poemes Juifs, Schelomo, music which the French had called too German, the Germans too French...
...flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with the airmail.-On his recommendation the War Department announced resumption of limited service on eight trunk routes. These routes constituted only about 40% of the mileage flown by the private operators before their contracts were canceled. .The announcement had hardly-been issued before one more Air Corps death was added to the list. Lieut. R. G. Richardson of the Reserve Corps, onetime copilot on United Air Lines...