Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...
...North Haven will remain at Midway 15 days, putting ashore supplies and construction material for an air base. When she moves on to Wake, 25 of her crew will be left behind to complete the building job. In addition to its construction material, the North Haven's 6,000-ton cargo includes every imaginable item needed to keep the men on the islands supplied with life's necessities during their lonely tenure. Some of the items: razor blades, soap, safety pins, flashlights, cigarets, chewing tobacco, shoelaces, candy, shoe polish, boxing gloves, chess sets, checkerboards, books, toothpicks, toothpaste, chewing...
...surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with his Republican opponent as to whether rich Mr. Davey had or had not wrecked a bank in his home town of Kent by approving excessive loans to himself...
...Washington, the Navy Department authorized establishment of operating bases on three tiny mid-Pacific islands- Midway, Wake and Guam...