Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...
Bald "baby" Representative Jerry J. O'Connell in Montana's 1st Congressional District (western part of the State) was last week renominated by Montana Democrats. That event made little difference to most people except Montana's Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Nationally famed as a "liberal" before Mr. O'Connell, now 29, was wearing long pants, Mr. Wheeler, 56, has been pilloried as a "reactionary" by O'Connell's clamoring about the votes Burton Wheeler cast against the President's Supreme Court plan and the Government Reorganization bill. Loud Mr. O'Connell...
Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
...long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
Concept. As railroads twined themselves across the U. S. during the last century, they engaged in a series of costly freight-rate wars. There was no Interstate Commerce Commission to settle the wrangle, so the roads set up three territories and arranged rate schedules in each. Western territory was everywhere west of the Mississippi; Southern, everywhere east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers; Official, everywhere east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac. In each territory the rates were fixed on the time-honored basis of traffic density. As an agricultural area...