Word: airport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a few hours' sleep in Munich, Edouard Daladier flew back to Paris a worn, tired, nervous, scared man. In the plane he stiffened his courage by downing a few more pastis (a legal absinthe drink) than usual. As he alighted from the plane at Le Bourget, Paris airport, and saw a big crowd waiting, he grabbed the arm of an aide, exclaimed in apprehension: "My God, where are the Mobile Guards...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Bronson Harriman Rumsey, 22, son of the late Sculptor Charles Gary Rumsey* and the late Mary Harriman Rumsey,† in a plane crash; near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left...
...elevators, air conditioning, etc. Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...
...this takes time to organize. Queen Wilhelmina ordered border battalions mustered to full strength to forestall possible German seizure of the vital sluice gates. Machine guns were placed along the border and reservists were ordered ready for instant service. Harbors and roads were mined. Amsterdam's great commercial airport was commandeered by the Government and heavy bomb-laden Fokkers waited to take...
...Brinkley established another hospital in Little Rock, Ark. Every Monday in his private plane he flies to Little Rock from Del Rio, and every Thursday he flies home again. At the airport pretty Mrs. Brinkley meets him in their 16-cylinder scarlet Cadillac, which looks like a fire engine and has "Dr. Brinkley" printed on the body. She drives him to their $100,000 red, white and blue estate called "Palm Drive in Hudson Gardens," in the suburbs of Del Rio. On the estate's three iron gates, which are guarded by two huskies and three biting geese...