Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...
...that is only the beginning. "Man," he says, "I wake up nights with new ideas." He wants a health clinic and a park for West Dallas, a community library, and a dairy barn for his school. He wants bee colonies, rabbit hutches, fruit trees and an amateur weather station-not forgetting a telescope to study astronomy ("That will get them a long way out of West Dallas"). He also wants to keep his school open all through the summer. "That way," says he, "a lot of these youngsters whose folks take them off cotton picking in the fall...
...consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining up the exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors tried to horn in, quick-thinking, quick-moving Juan Trippe managed to outfly them, outflank them...
...Dream Girl. The weather was good, no ball games, no dances, and, believe me, no business for us ... Walkouts galore! . . . Nasty remarks ... I ran and hid when they started coming...
...flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road and the weather, the imagined hazards (Indians and Mormons) and the real ones-fleas, whiskey, mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned water. Fear, worry, loneliness and monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly...