Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troubled directors of Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...
...them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...
Louisa Miller was the name of a prize-winning Holstein cow now deceased, which once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised from a sleep seemingly as sound as the bovine Louisa's and given performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort, the ship touched ground gently at her starting point, Istres Aerodrome near...
...Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles and home to Paris. On his recent flight home from Tsitsihar with Bellonte, Costes went by way of French Indo-China and broke his own record from Hanoi to Paris (4 days, 18 hours) by seven hours. He is now associated with Louis-Charles Breguet, designer-manufacturer...