Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
Statement. Through the Associated Press and the United Press both heard last week via underground grapevine that King Alfonso had broken with General Primo de Rivera, the dictator had just rapped out the following statement to correspondents in Madrid...
...jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile...
Today the fastest and most expensive rail-water-rail crossing via Dover-Calais takes seven hours, while the cheap popular route via Southampton and St. Malo requires 18. To motor from Paris to Le Bourget, fly to Croydon, and motor to London takes two and a half hours...