Word: waco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin monoplanes. Gone forever are goggles and helmet...
Amarillo is a cow, oil & gas town put on the map by the uncomplimentary comments of Gene Howe, editor of its Globe-News, on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden. Seven miles away lies a Federal gas processing plant which produces most of the world's helium. Waco makes its living from cotton, has a Cotton Palace, an annual Cotton Festival and Baylor University. "Dr. Pepper," the South's famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep...
...Christian felt sure that the winner of this, perhaps the season's most spectacular game, would get Stanford's bid. The Southwest Conference, now embracing six Texas colleges and the University of Arkansas, was organized in 1914. That was just four years after Texas Christian moved from Waco to Fort Worth and one year before Southern Methodist opened its doors. Short on tradition, the conferees were not particularly long on competence at the game itself for more than a decade. Then last year readers of the nation's sport pages suddenly became aware of the Texas league...
...Joseph M. Dawson of Waco, Tex.: I object to the President's lead in moral liberalism which has inundated the country in debauching liquor and brought on a high wave of gambling and laxity in home life...
...Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco, onetime Governor of Texas. Governor Eugene Black of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, now the President's official "liaison officer" between the Administration and the bankers, was there to drawl his endless funny stories. Board Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share went down from Manhattan. An old friend...