Word: airport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negotiation, offered mediation, agreed to discuss the German colonial question, trade relations and even reduction of armaments-but not in an atmosphere of war. Hitler must settle his quarrel with Poland, and Britain would stand by her ally. Sir Nevile boarded a plane for Berlin as crowds at Heston Airport shouted: "Good luck...
...China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest. As if purposely accentuating his sympathy for China, the Japanese sent over 18 bombers that night. For two hours Pandit Nehru sat snug in a dugout talking world affairs with China's leaders...
...their transit setup, beat down utility rates, cut the tax rate 5?, was credited with bringing the 1936 Democratic convention to Philadelphia. But since January 1 sick Sam Wilson had spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken and exposed, some suburbs unpoliced and city water too bad for finicky citizens to drink, Mayor Wilson signed the $112,000,000 budget seven and one-half months after it was due, tearfully handed in his resignation. It was, explained he shakily, to be only...
...Alongside the Hall of Air Transportation, arrive and depart Pan American Airways' crack transpacific Clippers. (After the Exposition closes, Treasure Island will remain an airport.) Inside the Hall, no thrill for the multitude, is Wrong-Way Corrigan's "crate...
Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia is a small Mexican with a white-toothed smile and surprising blue eyes. One morning last week, at Mexico City's airport, he put a rabbit's foot and a holy medal into his wallet, climbed into a five-year-old racing plane, took off in the direction of New York City. Pancho bucked strong head winds, got up at times to 16,000 ft. He had started with 525 gallons, but after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just...