Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored...
As thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p...
When Dr. Schacht proceeded to dwell again, last week, on the palpable iniquity of expecting Germany to pay Reparations for 62 years, the five fingers of Croesus Francqui's right hand were observed to tap impatiently on the Committee table. As the Governor paused for breath the Belgian leaped...
Up to last week over 12,000 "egg packers" (wholesalers) had registered with the Daily Mail a pledge to deal only in "Empire Eggs." As the newspaper of world's largest circulation (2,000,000) the Mail lavishly placed in the window of every shopkeeper whose "egg packer" had...
Absurdly simple! One either rings up one's broker or steps round to the Royal Exchange itself. Ignoring that justly celebrated mural Phoenicians Bartering with the Ancient Britons in Cornwall, one presses straight on and finds a board where election futures were quoted, last week.