Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles from observation vessels solely to motherships for airplanes, weapons of offense...
With a 185-million-dollar surplus showing on the Treasury's books for fiscal 1928, talk of income tax reduction waxed in Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
...York City. In protest against "sweat shops" and outside non-union contract work, 25,000 women's garment makers quit work, picketed peacefully. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt called both sides to Albany for personal conferences...
When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...
...Calamity Jane" is the name of the putter that sank the putt that made the tie that let Jones win the tournament. "Jeanie Deans" is the name of the driver that hooked the drives that got into the trouble that made it necessary for "Calamity Jane" to work hard. The man who made "Jeanie Deans" played in the tournament. He, Jack White of Scotland, 56, was the oldest competitor. He started out to be a major sensation by scoring a par 72 in the first round, including a freak shot on the lyth. With 175 yards...