Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Langer partisans in the Senate, trying desperately to muster a quorum, sent out two husky sergeants at arms to muster absent members. They found Senator C. W. Fine, a weather beaten little farmer, in the Governor's council chamber, forcibly dragged him to the Senate floor...
...Army's airmail difficulties the committee delivered what will doubtless be the last and most authoritative word: "Army flyers trained for military missions could not be expected in the beginning to perform the duty of carrying the mail as efficiently as the experienced airmail pilots. The wholly unprecedented weather conditions in the early stages accentuated other difficulties. However, the Army flyers met this duty with fidelity which does them great credit as soldiers. After the initial period and the clearing of the weather the mail was carried with special credit to the Army Air Corps...
Statistics included in the report showed that out of 3,140 scheduled airmail trips, 1,187 were completed on schedule, bad weather accounting for delay in 446 cases. mechanical trouble in 39, accidents in only...
...weather again got into the motor of his Army airplane. Against his will he spent two sweltering nights in Omaha, at last chartered a special plane to take him to Portland, Ore. to make a similar speech. Two more speeches were in his brief case, one for Los Angeles, Calif., the other for Chicago. Between them lay an unwritten and far more precious plan?two weeks of rest somewhere in the mountains...
...wedding," declared Professor Hauer, and proceeded to do so. While the bride and groom bent their heads and cameras clicked, the Weihewart read sonorously from a ritual book of Pagan devising: "Oh Mother Earth, from whom all love proceeds! And oh Father Heaven, who blesses with His light and weather! And all good Powers of the Air! May you rule over this man and this woman until their destinies are fulfilled...