Word: inspecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak, grimy villages. Appropriately a driving snow swirled about the royal car and patriotic British correspondents wired to anxious London that H. R. H. was "pressing on," despite "his heavy cold" and "frequent coughing...
...Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon recently decided that air traffic from Canada, Mexico, the West Indies and elsewhere had become so heavy that customs men must be assigned to inspect the incoming planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and at once their chambers of commerce besieged the Treasury Department. They wanted their communities designated air ports of entry where foreign planes must land for a customs declaration. Mr. Mellon received some 60 strident demands. But he closed his ears and hardened his heart. The only air ports of entry...
...while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank Duke Nicholas' lines, and the "Debauchee" wired that he was coming. He changed his plans upon receiving a one-sentence telegram from the Grand Duke Nicholas...
...Hoover decided he would not have time to climb up and inspect the monument...