Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City of New York silhouetted against Ross Barrier; the Stars & Stripes, propelled by a stone from Floyd Bennett's grave, fluttering down from Byrd...
...investigations continued, Reporter Lingle was given a funeral of civic proportions and dignity-a squad of mounted police, more police and firemen on foot, the Great Lakes Naval Station band (Lingle had served in the Navy intelligence service), an American Legion firing squad, four American Legion posts in uniform, Police Commissioner Russell, Detective Chief Stege and many another city official and magistrate whom Lingle had known well. Only conspicuous absentee was Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, whose ineptitude as the city's leader has for so long been so apparent that he now figures scarcely...
...TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...
...first scheduled stop was made at Cluj in Transylvania. In a general's uniform "M. Caraiman" tested out popular sentiment, was "well though not wildly cheered. It was announced that Carol "insisted" upon flying "on to Bucharest," although this would be "dangerous" as "darkness" was approaching. At this point the building up of legend, which surrounds every King and is part of his royal armor, began...
Meanwhile at 2 p. m., Carol, in the uniform of a General of Aviation, had set out with Prince Nicholas from Cotroceni palace. Wildly cheering throngs delayed him. It was 3:15 when he entered Parliament, ushered by Speaker St. Ciceo Pop, greeted by one vast roar of cheering as boiled-shirted deputies and senators leaped to their feet. To take his royal oath Carol faced not the speaker's table, for that had been removed, but a blazing altar of the orthodox church...